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Re: Show HN: Compilify.NET - Compile C# from your browser

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Hi! This is a small project I started on about a week ago to explore Microsoft's Roslyn CTP. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!

Why did you make this?

I've been very excited about Roslyn since I heard Anders Hejlsberg speak about it at Microsoft's Build conference, but I never had a use case for it besides the tutorials and samples included with the CTP. One of the cool things that came with the CTP was the new C# Interactive window (a REPL environment) it added to Visual Studio. With it, I can execute C# against my solution on the fly. This is extremely useful for doing things like testing regexes, comparing the results of different method overloads, or quickly testing a method I just wrote, without requiring me to rebuild the entire project or solution.

The idea behind Compilify is to bring that same interactive environment to the web.