I first learned about the C# compiler as a service workings way back in 2008 at PDC. At that time, Anders Hejlsberg gave a brief preview of what was to come by showing off a C# ...

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...

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I set out to add scripting support to Project Lemma the other day. End result: I can recompile C# scripts on the fly and cache the bytecode in DLLs. The best part: there's no special binding code, and ...

Taking a lesson from scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript, Microsoft has introduced a file-based apps capability for the C# language, which is intended to streamline C# development.

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The scripting engine has now, in SSIS 2008, been re-written to support Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA). This allows easier referencing of all .NET assemblies and therefore more flexibility ...

What is a variable? Technically, it's a tiny section of your computer's memory that will hold any information that you put there. While a game is running, it keeps track of where the information is ...

The differences between scripting languages and programming languages might be more subtle than expected. A scripting language employs an interpreter to guide software actions derived from source code ...