Installing CS-Script Tools

Install CS-Script.VSIX from Visual Studio extension manager or from Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=OlegShilo.CS-ScriptToolsVS2017

Opening CS-Script Tools window In Visual Studio select View->Other Windows->CS-Script Tools menu:

Creating new script

Click "New Script" command:

Opening existing script

• With Open File dialog

  1. Click "Open Script" command:
     
  2. The Open File dialog will popup. Navigate and select the script file. The script file will be loaded into Visual Studio.
  
  

• By Drag-n-drop

  1. Drag and drop the script file anywhere in the CS-Script Tools window.
     
  2. The script file will be loaded into Visual Studio.
  
  

Refreshing opened script references

At any time you can trigger parsing CS-Script directives (//css_*) in order to update set of imported scripts and referenced assemblies. The following is a typical scenario for including spike.cs script and adding reference to System.Xml.dll assembly to the new script.cs script.

Opening script from the Recent Scripts list

The appearance and the implementation of the "Recent Scripts" is very similar to the "Recent Projects" list on the "Start page" of Visual Studio. This also includes support for context menus for script items for "Open Script", "Open Script Folder" and "Remove From List". This also includes "pinning" and "unpinning" items.

You can edit "Recent Scripts" content by executing "Manage Recent Scripts" command:

Click the script item in the "Recent Scripts" list to open it in Visual Studio.

Executing CS-Script commands Click any of link button in the commands pane. The buttons have self explanatory captions: