C# Interpreter (without compilation) [closed]

Answer 1

This one works really well c# repl and interactive interpreter

Answer 2

Check out the Mono project. They recently demoed CsharpRepl which sounds like what you're after. The PDC 2008 video here.

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Update:
On a close look it seems like using Mono.CSharp service to evaluate scripts won't be possible. Currently it is linked to the Mono runtime and they don't expect it to run in a medium trust environment. See this discussion for more info.

On alternative possibility is to include the Mono C# compiler (sources here) in your project and use it to generate assemblies that you load from the file system. It you are worried about the resources required to load all those assemblies you might have to load them in a separate AppDomain.

Answer 3

I believe Mono has mint, an interpreter they use before implementing the JIT for a given platform. While the docs in the official site (e.g. Runtime) say it's just an intermediate state before consolidating the jitting VM, I'm pretty sure it was there the last time I compiled it on Linux. I can't quite check it right now, unfortunately, but maybe it's in the direction you want.

Answer 4

Have you looked at paxScript.NET?

Answer 5

LINQPad can work as a code snippet IDE. The application is very small and lightweight. It is free (as in beer) but not open-source. Autocompletion costs extra but not much ($19).

Edit: after reading over the comments in this post a little more carefully, I don't think LINQPad is what you want. You need something that can programmatically evaluate thousands of little scripts dynamically, right? I did this at work using Iron Ruby very easily. If you're willing to use a DLR language, this would probably be more feasible. I also did some similar work with some code that could evaluate a C# lambda expression passed in as a string but that was extremely limited.

Answer 6

Is Snippet Compiler something you looking for?