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Re:Show HN: DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @12:20PM (#6769370)
It is open source though.
Re:Why developers should go to conferences on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:57PM (#6506077)
I had the same experience with my previous employer. I made sure I negotiated at least two conferences per year with my current employer.
Re:Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify on Monday April 16, 2012 @09:53PM (#3850601)
Simplicity and speed are the advantages.

Compilr, Coderun, and Ideone all look like great in-browser replacements for a full blown IDE. The builds even take as long as a Visual Studio would. They're great for when you want or need the full IDE experience.

But there are many times when a developer might not want that experience. Maybe you're brainstorming a new implementation for an algorithm and you just want to get an idea of what it might look like. Maybe you're in the middle of a presentation and someone in the audience asked you a slightly off-topic question, and you don't want to spin up a new instance of an IDE just to help them understand.

This tool is for those situations like those.

Re:Show HN: Compilify.NET - Compile C# from your browser on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @02:05PM (#3828787)
Here's an implementation of FizzBuzz on Compilify: http://compilify.net/3b
Re:Show HN: Compilify.NET - Compile C# from your browser on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:42AM (#3827211)
I've been very excited about Roslyn since I heard Anders Hejlsberg speak about it at Microsoft's Build conference, but I never had a use case for it besides the tutorials and samples included with the CTP. One of the cool things that came with the CTP was the new C# Interactive window (a REPL environment) it added to Visual Studio. With it, I can execute C# against my solution on the fly. This is extremely useful for doing things like testing regexes, comparing the results of different method overloads, or quickly testing a method I just wrote, without requiring me to rebuild the entire project or solution.

The idea behind Compilify is to bring that same interactive environment to the web.

Re:Show HN: Compilify.NET - Compile C# from your browser on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:40PM (#3825812)
Hi! This is a small project I started on about a week ago to explore Microsoft's Roslyn CTP. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!