A scripting language for your (web)app with DLR or Roslyn

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A scripting language for your (web)app with DLR or Roslyn(www.progware.org)

submitted by iwannis(452) 6 months, 25 days ago

How to provide a scripting language to your users of your (web)app by using the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and IronPython, and then the services provided by the Roslyn CTP with C#.

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posted by iwannis(452) 6 months, 25 days ago +1

Good point. Security is the main concern in this and shiuld be taken seriously. With the DLR approach the only things made available to your app are the ones exposed by the objects you add in the scope. Therefore such danger does not exist. In Roslyn I have to check it out but my first hunch is that since we are not adding the System.IO namespace to the engine, those "dangerous" methods will not be available.

posted by dpeterson(4397) replied to iwannis(452), 6 months, 25 days ago 0

Cool, wasn't sure if Rosyln provided access to anything by default.

posted by dpeterson(4397) 6 months, 25 days ago 0

Seems very cool, but is there security in place to disable access to certain parts of the .Net Framework? For instance, could someone use System.IO and wipe out files on the web server?

posted by Noldorin(829) 6 months, 23 days ago 0

Nice article. This draws a good analogy between the new Roslyn method of making a static language like C# available as a scripting language, where the DLR/dynamic languages traditionally ruled (or before that even more primitive methods).

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