[Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

It was one of those nights. I had a small idea I decided to test, and *BAM* a flood of ideas started. And the end of the night I had this article sitting in my lap and I thought I'd share it with you:
 
 
Summery:

Adding scripting support to your application is one of the most valuable things you can do for your client, letting them add value to your software, and keep it current over time with little or no overhead from the developers. Your users will be able to modify behavior at runtime, change business rules as the market changes and fix subtle bugs as they appear until better fixes come along in the form of compiled code. It is one of the most powerful techniques today employed my many varied business applications. But guess what? Its not very easy to do in .Net. In this article Ill show you how you can use some of the techniques of the past mixed with the .Net framework to add that scripting ability to managed applications, with a touch on a subject that was never considered for scripting: WebServices , including asynchronous calls to them.

 
As usual, feedback is appreciated.
Published Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:51 AM by RoyOsherove
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:42 AM by Alex

# re: [Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

hi roy,
the link to the article points to your harddisk ;-)

Alex
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:43 AM by Alex

# re: [Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

me again - seems that my rss reader has a bug....
it works

Alex
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:15 AM by R

# re: [Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way


Thanks for the article, it's very useful.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:02 AM by Eric Willeke

# re: [Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

Not a comment about your article, which I will go read in a moment, but a comment in support of the way you posted it.

I _really_ like the format you used to put your article out there for RSS readers: Short personal comment, link, abstract. Keeps the feed short, very well organised, very clear what you're posting, keeps me from having to follow links for content that's not appropriate to my current reading. I think more content needs to be posted this way!
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:39 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: [Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

Eric, thanks. That's the first time anyone complimented me on posting style <p>
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:26 PM by Randy

# re: [Article] Make your .Net application support scripting - the practical way

I'll have to read this when I'm not tracking 40 blogs, but there IS a bug in the RSS feed link for the article... don't be surprised if you find SharpMT to be script-able it this tickles me the right way :)