VB.NET 2005, scripting languages - [RESOLVED]
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I'm currently looking for a scripting language to implement into VB8. A while back, I recall reading somewhere about Lua becoming a .net language; however, I can no longer find it (Google, CodeProject were places I looked). Does anyone know a link to it and/or know if it's compatible with VB8? I'm looking to allow the end user to write plugins for my app. So if there's a better alternative, please suggest it (Except for Codedom [sick]).
[Edited by - orcfan32 on August 10, 2006 9:26:35 AM]
How about VB.NET? Or C#?
Look in the Microsoft.CSharp, Microsoft.VisualBasic, and System.CodeDom.Compiler namespaces. You can compile .NET code at runtime, perfect for scripting.
EDIT: OH.. LOL... I just saw the last line. DOn't know how I missed it. What's wrong with CodeDom?
Here:
You can implement individual scripts named ScriptImpl. Then it's just a matter of doing something like this:
I know that isn't what you wanted, but I had it so... whatever.
Look in the Microsoft.CSharp, Microsoft.VisualBasic, and System.CodeDom.Compiler namespaces. You can compile .NET code at runtime, perfect for scripting.
EDIT: OH.. LOL... I just saw the last line. DOn't know how I missed it. What's wrong with CodeDom?
Here:
namespace Core{ public interface IScript { /** * Executes a script and returns an object of arbitrary type. */ object execute(object obj); } public class ScriptingSystem { public static IScript loadScript(String scriptFile) { return loadScript(scriptFile, new String [] {}); } public static IScript loadScript(String scriptFile, String [] references) { try { // Create compiler CSharpCodeProvider codeProv = new CSharpCodeProvider(); CompilerParameters compilerParams = new CompilerParameters(); compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.dll"); compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("Core.dll"); compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.AddRange(references); compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.AddRange(parseReferencesFromSource(scriptFile)); compilerParams.GenerateInMemory = true; CompilerResults results = null; results = codeProv.CompileAssemblyFromFile(compilerParams, scriptFile); if (results.Errors.Count > 0) { foreach (CompilerError err in results.Errors) { Console.WriteLine(err); } return null; } IScript result = (IScript)results.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance("ScriptImpl"); return result; } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine("EXCEPTION: " + e.Message); return null; } } private static String[] parseReferencesFromSource(String sourceFile) { StreamReader rdr = new StreamReader(sourceFile); List<String> list = new List<String>(); Regex regEx = new Regex("//\\s*referenceassembly:"); String line = rdr.ReadLine(); while (regEx.IsMatch(line.ToLower())) { list.Add(line.Split(':')[1].Trim()); line = rdr.ReadLine(); } rdr.Close(); return list.ToArray(); } }}You can implement individual scripts named ScriptImpl. Then it's just a matter of doing something like this:
Script scr = ScriptingSystem.loadScript("testscript1.cs");retVal = scr.execute(someObj); I know that isn't what you wanted, but I had it so... whatever.
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Reason I don't like Codedom is because the end user will have almost as much access as the language itself, meaning they could easily write a virus in the form of a plugin.
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Already have. I don't like the fact that it's typed, and I don't know a thing about the python syntax.
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As a scripting language I want it to be easy to use. Instead of having the user to memorize different data types, they should only have to go
then a second later
It's no different than Lua in C++...
a = "string"then a second later
a = 12345It's no different than Lua in C++...
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