Episode 238 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block & Jim Christopher on scriptcs
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Block & Jim Christopher about scriptcs
News
No podcast next week
MVAÂ [Advanced Tools & Scripts with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/advanced-tools-scripting-with-powershell-3-0-jump-start#fbid=XvTVyxieoRZ)
MVPÂ [Adam Driscoll is working a new project](http://csharpening.net/?p=1673)Â called PoshTools
The Florida PowerShell user group is [meeting August 20th](https://powershell.org/event/florida-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting-august-2013/)
[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
Interview
Guests - Glenn Block & Jim Christopher
Links
[scriptcs homepage](http://scriptcs.net/)
[scriptcs github org](https://github.com/scriptcs)
dictionary:Â [nuget](http://www.nuget.org/)Â |Â [roslyn](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh500769.aspx)Â |Â [sublime text](http://www.sublimetext.com/)Â |Â [REPL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop)Â | Â [MEF](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460648.aspx)
[scriptcs WPF calculator sample](https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-samples/tree/master/wpf)
[scriptcs plugin for sublime text](https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-sublime)
[beefarino"™s ScriptCS PowerShell module](https://github.com/beefarino/ScriptCS-PowerShell-Module)
Chatroom Buzz
 http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/4685C1B4-FE68-2D62-3AFA-CE674E67F742#-638
 http://scriptcs.net/
 http://www.nuget.org/
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh500769.aspx
 https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs
 http://www.sublimetext.com/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop
 https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-samples/tree/master/wpf
scriptcs sublime plugin -Â https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-sublime
scriptcs webapi script pack + example https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs-webapi
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqKrH0O9yg
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460648.aspx
Stuwee:Â http://scriptcs.net/
 http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
Re Roslyn check out this session from PDC **08** at about time index 1:04:00Â http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL16
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Audio_Cable
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
http://www.hanselminutes.com/161/bbss-and-wildcat-from-mustang-software
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