Executing C# Scripts from Command Line or C# Interactive Windows in Visual Studio

C# Script files is similar like other script files that contain a piece of C# code and can execute and returns the results.  As I said it is only piece of code – you really don’t have to have like a class  or method to get the result. The C# script file (CSX) file is  it’s own container and execute like a method. For Visual Studio, you can execute the CSX Script either using C# Interactive Window or CSI Command Line Window.

Before your proceed further, you must read following two posts to understand more about the new C# Interactive Window and the Command Line Interactive script engine for Visual Studio.

• Use C# Interactive Window for your coding experiment in Visual Studio 2015
• Command Line C# Interactive Script Execution for Visual Studio

Consider you have following C# Script file named “MyScript.csx” which just print a series of number from a defined collection.

To run the script from the C# Interactive Window, write the following command and press enter.

#load "D:\Myscript.csx"

You will have following output :;

Similarly from the Command Prompt, open the Visual Studio Command Prompt and run the following command.

csi d:\MyScript.csx

Once the script loads and execute, you will have the following output.

Hope this helps !