Wrapping user's source with my own header/footer

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Posted 9 years ago by Daniel Earwicker
Version: 14.1.0323
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I'd like to offer my users the ability to use C# or VB.NET as if they were scripting languages. In simple terms I mean that the user would enter code that is effectively just the body of a method.

I would then wrap that in auto-generated class/method declaration to produce compilable source.

But I want the Actipro editor to do all the great intellisense/autocompletion stuff. Hence I need the editor to analyse the code as if it was wrapped in the class/method declaration, but not display the wrapper code.

So the user just writes/sees:

log.WriteLine("Hello world");

For compilation I would wrap that as follows:

public static class UserScript
{
    public void UserMethod(TextWriter log)
    {
        log.WriteLine("Hello world");
    }
}

The user should get intellisense etc. when they type log because it's declared as a parameter to the wrapper method.

Is this possible with Actipro?

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Answer - Posted 9 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Daniel,

Yes, we fully support that.  Please see the Code Fragments QuickStart in the Sample Browser project.  It shows exactly how to achieve this scenario using SyntaxEditor and the .NET Languages Add-on.


Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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