Plans for C# Script???

[Christian Bensberg]

Are there any plans for a C# scripting language that can be used with the
Script Control or the WSH?

Regards,
Bensberg

[Eran Sandler]

As far as I know, Microsoft's plan is to eliminate the scripts. All so
called scripts will be actually Just In Time compiled and run. This mean's
that almost every managed code compiler can be actually used as a script so
it includes VB.net and C# as well.

Eran.

"Christian Bensberg" <bens...@web.de> wrote in message
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[Jeff Glenn]

I think the more interesting questions are,

"When will we be able to write C# code for IE instead of
vbscript/javascript?"

"For that matter why can't we use any dotnet language in the client
browser?"

Yeah, that would be cool. One language everywhere...

Jeff

"Eran Sandler" <esan...@netvision.net.il> wrote in message
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[Jonathan Allen]

You couldn't even if you could. Not only would it require an IE upgrade,
Netscape would never support it.

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"Jeff Glenn" <jgl...@intrastar.com> wrote in message
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[William Stacey]

It would be really easy for them to do. Send the code down to the client,
have IE spawn the JIT to start cranking on the code. Very minor change to
IE. The big question is getting the JIT/runtime built into all versions of
Windows so it will be ubiquitus. Then you could really script C#.NET,
C++.NET and VB.NET everywhere. Actually just building on WSH today. You
don't really even need IE. However, the security people may have a field
day with this one. However, rich applications require more than a sandbox.

[Jonathan Allen]

You still have the Netscape problem. As long as it's floating around, we
have to code to it on all Internet projects. MS could write a plug-in that
took over the Netscape rendering engine and produce decent output, but I
don't see it happening.

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"William Stacey" <sta...@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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[Peter Torr (MS)]

"Jonathan Allen" <greyw...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> You still have the Netscape problem.

One word... check my signature ;-)

Peter

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JScript .NET Program Manager

[Lutz Roeder]

actually netscape dont seems to be a big problem anymore.
some friend told me that they just kicked N4/N6 support out
of everything and expected lots of trouble but finally the "migration"
went very smooth (it might sound suprising but they realized that
not a single customer really needed N4/N6 support ...).
furthermore most tech-users have N6/IE on the same machine and
if netscape crashes they usually jump to the big evil browser that works.

"Jonathan Allen" <greyw...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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[Jonathan Allen]

I wish I could say the same. Any idea what the market share is right now?
Maybe it's low enough that we really don't need it any more.

> not a single customer really needed N4/N6 support ...).

What, no one is using N5?

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"Lutz Roeder" <lut...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Zachary Turner]

Never say never. After all, C# and the whole .NET architecture have been
submitted to ECMA for standardization. This means that in a few years
perhaps .NET will exist for more platforms. And as it begins showing up on
more platforms, people like Netscape will be compelled to incorporate the
technology into their browsers.

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[Jonathan Allen]

> And as it begins showing up on
> more platforms, people like Netscape will be compelled to incorporate the
> technology into their browsers.

JScript, in the form of EcmaScript, has also been submitted. And so a lot of
it has already implemented by IE and Netscape. Creating a new language
called C#Script would be an unnecessary duplication of effort.

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Jonathan Allen

"Zachary Turner" <ztu...@bindview.com> wrote in message
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[Peter Torr (MS)]

"Jonathan Allen" <greyw...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message

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> JScript, in the form of EcmaScript, has also been submitted. And so a lot
of
> it has already implemented by IE and Netscape.

re: "a lot of it":

JScript 5.5, released last year, fully implements a superset of ECMAScript
Edition 3.

I believe Netscape also have a full implementation in their latest release
of JavaScript.

[Peter Torr (MS)]

Hi,

Somehow I missed this thread... see below for comments.

"Jeff Glenn" <jgl...@intrastar.com> wrote in message
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> Yeah, that would be cool. One language everywhere...

I believe your talking about JScript (ECMAScript)... and it has been
available for several years.

"Eran Sandler" <esan...@netvision.net.il> wrote in message
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> As far as I know, Microsoft's plan is to eliminate the scripts.

Not at all! :-) Check out the new VSA announcement --
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/vsa (I think)

> All so called scripts will be actually Just In Time compiled and run.

Yes -- this doesn't stop them being "scripts", though.

"Christian Bensberg" <bens...@web.de> wrote in message
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> Are there any plans for a C# scripting language that can be used with
> the Script Control or the WSH?

Maybe in the future, but not just yet.