UpdatR VS interactive

With top level statements a .cs-file can be quite similar to csx. I just whish I could specify the nuget packages in it so we could ditch the csproj. Or that csx for full support in dotnet run. I usually just use top level statements with Bullseye, that's quite neat even if it requires a csproj. Here's an example of what I do with it: https://github.com/OskarKlintrot/UpdatR/blob/main/tools/Build/Build.cs

My side project is UpdatR (https://github.com/OskarKlintrot/UpdatR) which I use to replace Nukeeper at work. Nukeeper is deprecated and stopped working on Azure DevOps but Dependabot isn't available on Azure DevOps. "How hard can it be" I thought and spent too many evenings getting it working good enough to actually use... It updates packages to the latest version that is still supported by the target framework and generates a title and body to be used in the PR. It seems to be working so far. I want it to support multitarget frameworks and updating Directory.Build.props too, which are no small tasks...

All of this will be accomplished inside of a single Polyglot Notebook. If you're not familiar with Polyglot Notebooks, they're a technology built on top of Jupyter Notebooks that allow you to use additional language kernels, including a F# Kernel. This lets you run interactive data science experiments in a single notebook as shown here in VS Code:

I use .NET on Linux and the experience with Rider has been great. The workflow transfers really well between Mac, Windows, and Linux, and everything works the way you expect. The only problems I run into are that there are still things that are Windows focused. For example MAUI does not run on Linux which is a shame because we could use another cross platform GUI.

There are still bugs, for example I ran into one with Polyglot Notebooks not working on Manjaro or Pop!_OS https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/issues/3159

First of all, if you have a small amount of code that lives in an individual C# file and you wanted to reference it in your notebook, you can do this via the #!import magic command as shown below:

My 2 cents: use a Personal Access Token instead of a password, it is much safer (even though not 100% safe). Some references: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/discussions/1340 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/use-personal-access-tokens-to-authenticate

See also https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

U have Powershell notebooks https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

Or Rider or simply install dotnet by itself (very easy) and code in a notepad or VSCode. .NET interactive is another awesome way to start: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/docs/display-output-csharp.md

Hi! My name is Claudia and I am a PM at Microsoft (opinions are my own) working on Polyglot Notebooks in VS Code. Polyglot Notebooks are exactly what you are describing! They are notebooks where you can use multiple languages AND share variables between them to ensure a continuous workflow. Not only that, but each language has language server support. Polyglot Notebooks currently supports C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, KQL, and Mermaid.

We have just added support for Python and R integration and I am actually in search of external testers! If you are willing to sign an NDA to try out our Python and R integration and give us feedback please drop your email in the form below and I will reach out with instructions for you to try it out!

https://forms.office.com/r/UQchfQSGa5

If you'd like to start trying it out today you can install the extension from the marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

I've been excited about a lot of the work being done in .NET Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks, particuarly with ML with F#. I don't know too much about ML, so I thought I'd check out ML.NET.