C# Script and Pascal Script

FinalBuilder Feature Requests
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FB currently supports VBScript, JavaScript, PowerShell and Python. I think many users of FB are less familiar with these, and more familiar with C# or other .NET languages, or Delphi.

LINQPad is a popular high quality tool that directly uses .NET to run C# source, and also VB and F# , pretty much as if it was interpreteded scripts. How this is done is explained on the web by the author of the tool, a well known author of programming books. It would be nice if you could get FB to run C# scripts in this way. Having access to the .NET framework in this way would give us easy access to lots of really powerful functionality, which I believe would make FB scripting a whole lot easier.

Inno Setup is a popular high quality tool that uses Pascal Script from RemObjects, freely available with source. In Inno Setup you can set breakpoints. It would be nice to have this Delphi like language in FB.

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Hi Brent

It’s unlikely that we’ll add any more scripting languages anytime soon. As you probably know, much of FinalBuilder is written in Delphi, so we know delphi very well here, and imho it’s not well suited to addhoc scripting. As for C#, there is no (official) C# script language implementation. It is possible to dynamically compile and run C# ‘scripts’, however there is a cost involved, since you can’t unload the runtime generated assemblies there is a potential to end up consuming huge amounts of memory. We tested this several years ago and gave up on the idea. I was hoping the Microsoft would develop DLR based C# & javascript implementations (adding DLR based scripts is in theory quite trival, as we have done most of the work already for IronPython).