C# How To Run C# Code Inside Sublime Text

Hey folks, I want to share a tip. Sublime Text is my favorite for quick scripts, text editing and doing other scripting things or anything which doesn’t require a whole IDE. I love the speed too much and it is super-fast. In the process, I found that you can run C# scripts too, right from inside the Sublime Text, like you can run JavaScript. This is what I will brief you about:

Sometime back, I wrote on configuring Sublime Text for JavaScript too. Here’s the link, if you want to learn:

• How to Run or Debug JavaScript in Sublime Text

Ok, let’s start. The process is simple. You need to have an executable file, which Sublime Text will use to execute the scripts.

For C#, we will use scriptcs. Like NodeJS can run JavaScript, scriptcs runs C#. You can write and execute an Application with only one line of code.

Steps to configure Sublime Text for executing C# codes

Step 1: Install scriptcs

In order to install scriptcs, you need to have chocolatey. Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows.

You can install it in two ways:

1. Using the command prompt (cmd.exe): Run the command, given below in the console:
   1. @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin
2. Using Powershell : Run either of the following commands
   1. iex ((new–object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))
   2. iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex  

   There’s a chance you will get an error while running the script due to a Powershell Execution policy. By default, it is set to “Restricted” to prevent the harmful scripts from running. You can check the current execution policy by running “Get-ExecutionPolicy” command in Powershell.

If you encounter this error, set the execution policy to “RemoteSigned” and run the installation command again. Use the command given below:

 Make sure you start the Powershell console in Administrator mode, otherwise the change will not take place.