Episode 238 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block & Jim Christopher on scriptcs

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Block & Jim Christopher about scriptcs

News

• No podcast next week

• MVA Advanced Tools & Scripts with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start

• MVP Adam Driscoll is working a new project called PoshTools

• The Florida PowerShell user group is meeting August 20th

• PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th

Interview

Guests - Glenn Block & Jim Christopher

Links

• scriptcs homepage

• scriptcs github org

• dictionary: nuget | roslyn | sublime text | REPL |  MEF

• scriptcs WPF calculator sample

• scriptcs plugin for sublime text

• beefarino’s ScriptCS PowerShell module

Chatroom Buzz

<BellyTimber> http://poshcode.org/4325
<halr9000> http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/4685C1B4-FE68-2D62-3AFA-CE674E67F742#-638
<MikeFRobbins> irm -Uri http://feeds.feedburner.com/PowerScripting | where title -like *jim*christopher* | select title
<PascalL> http://scriptcs.net/
<halr9000> http://www.nuget.org/
<halr9000> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh500769.aspx
<halr9000> https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs
<halr9000> http://www.sublimetext.com/
<halr9000> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop
<PascalL> https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-samples/tree/master/wpf
<JohnMcBride> scriptcs sublime plugin - https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-sublime
<beefarino> ouch: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/08/07/devs-angry-over-msdn-redesign.aspx
<JohnMcBride> scriptcs webapi script pack + example https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-webapi
<halr9000> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqKrH0O9yg
<gblock> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460648.aspx
<halr9000> Stuwee: http://scriptcs.net/
<halr9000> http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
<Keith_> Re Roslyn check out this session from PDC **08** at about time index 1:04:00 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL16
<halr9000> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Audio_Cable
<jrusbatch> Jaykul: It's pretty interesting. He mentions that there is a little Roslyn in VS2013. The Roslyn portion starts around 34minutes in. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/9-006
<BellyTimber> http://theoatmeal.com/blog/fix_computer
<sepeck> BellyTimber: http://channel9.msdn.com/ <-- has lots and lots of coding stuff on it as well
<ScriptingWife> http://csharpening.net/
<beefarino> BTW, here's the ScriptCS powershell module: https://github.com/beefarino/ScriptCS-PowerShell-Module
<MikeFRobbins> Here's my library: http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/library.jpg
<sepeck> halr9000: http://calibre-ebook.com/ makes it go away
<BellyTimber> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/go-that-way-really-fast.html
<gblock> http://www.hanselminutes.com/161/bbss-and-wildcat-from-mustang-software
<gblock> we have an org, https://github.com/scriptcs
<11beefarino> #### this one is for beefarino: how does one maintain such a ruggedly handsome demeanor?
<11BellyTimber> ##What's the difference?
<1BrendanLiamT> ### will this be recorded?
<0halr9000> ## asdfasdfasdf
<2gblock> ##### hashmark people ####
<11BellyTimber> ## Will the beef guy have anymore brain teasers?
<11sepeck> ## link to scriptcs? site
<11BellyTimber> ## All the code gets compiled and outputs an exe?
<12DougFinke> ## LinqPad just announced a command line. Any thoughts? Have they approached you about using Scriptcs?
<5MarcoShaw> ## How "official" is ScriptCS? Will Server 2014 be written in ScriptCS? PowerShell first, then ScriptCS...
<0halr9000> ## like this: what's MEF
<6jrusbatch> ## Is scriptcs extensible at all?
<12DougFinke> ## Some folks are concerned that Scriptcs is built on Roslyn, a CTP and the ecosystem is not there. What do you think?
<0Jaykul> ## Is Roslyn EVER going to actually ship?
<0Jaykul> ## Why is ScriptCS built on Roslyn instead of Mono's (already shipped) REPL?
<0halr9000> that's what the ## are for
<0halr9000> json2: ### HASHMARK PEOPLE ####
<0halr9000> ## OCTOTHORPE PEOPLE ##
<0halr9000> ## json2: What's the "killer app" use case for ScriptCS? Give me a concrete example of something that I can use it for to solve a problem today.
<11sepeck> ## are you goign to do a singing quartet afterwards?
<3HalsWife> ##Blister in the Sun first pleasethankyou
<4Keith_> ## Do you thinking using Roslyn would allow you to build an effective in-app scripting solution complete with Intellisense and debugging similar to VBA?
<12json2> ## Doesnt Roslyn already permit loading/running .cs at runtime? What does ScriptCS add to the "WoW/LUA-like" scripting story?
<14ScriptingWife> ## Up Next Rob Willis and PowerShell Deployment Toolkit

The Question -

• Jim - mp3 player

• Glenn - Vic-20