Scripting Applications

[Heinz Kiosk]

Hopefully this is a real lame-brain question.

I am writing an app in .NET and I want to include scripting capability in
the app. ie I want end-users to be able to write assorted script routines
(VBScript? JScript?) that my app will look for (source code in SQL memo
fields or text files on the client's machine maybe?) and call in certain
situations without having to go through any explicit (to the user)
compilation process. I need this script to have mechanisms whereby it can
call back into instance-methods in my own code.

I see a thing called JScript.NET but the examples I can find seem to refer
to writing, compiling, and launching little mini-apps that consist solely of
script, rather than scripting the behaviour of an existing large and complex
app. The callbacks and access to main-app data are key...

I hope that is clear enough... any suggestions for further reading?

Regards

Tom

 

[Gabriele G. Ponti]

Heinz,

I think you are on the right track. In order to add a useful scripting
functionality to your .NET application you need to add your objects to the
engine. This way your scripts will have access to your the application
features.

For more information, please see the following document:

Script Happens .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnclinic/html/scripting07142000.asp

Regards,

Gabriele