Is there a way to use the C# interactive shell window (from the Roslyn CTP) outside of VS? Or is there something similar to it that is available?
After several years (ugh!) there is finally something in this space! CShell. From the site:
CShell is an interactive C# scripting environment. It allows you to use C# without any fluff right in a console like environment caled a read-eval-print-loop (REPL). Your code is directly evaluated and executed in a shell window, no separate executable has to be compiled and then run in a different process. More elaborate code can be written in a C# script and then evaluated as one file, only one line, or a selection. Then, your results can be easily dumped to HTML (like LINQPad) or viewed as a data grid or plotted to a chart.
Right now, the interactive window only works inside Visual Studio. Roslyn exposes a scripting API which the interactive window uses, so you really want an interactive window running somewhere else, feel free to write it!
To be clear, the C# Interactive window uses several Visual Studio components (such as the VS Editor), so it cannot be hosted outside of VS. As Jason Malinowski said, you can create a quick-and-dirty Interactive window outside of VS pretty easily using the Roslyn Scripting APIs. Also, if you re looking to evaluate code outside of VS, you can create a C# Script file (.csx), add top-level code just as you can in the Interactive window, and run it with the rcsi.exe binary that ships with the Roslyn CTP.
Here is a quick Example, pretty minimal though. Don t support blocks {}
http://www.amazedsaint.com/2011/10/c-vnext-roslynan-introduction-and-quick.html
csi.exe is the command-line version of C# interactive. It s shipped in the box with Visual Studio. Type csi from a Developer Command prompt.
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