Any light weight alternatives to Visual Studio for testing code snippets? [closed]

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Are there any light weight tools (preferably portable so I can put it in a memory stick) that can compile C# code snippets? I don't want to load Visual Studio, create a project and all to test a small code snippet.

Thansks!

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How about http://rextester.com/rundotnet?

This is online - so always available - downsides are it's a little slow, so good for trying out simple things quickly - not so great if you're doing anything more complex.

Alternatively if you want an offline approach try Linq Pad

http://www.linqpad.net/

Although it was primarily created to debug LINQ statements - it actually works as a great lightweight general purpose IDE.

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SnippetCompiler would be one, though it hasn't been updated for a while so could be out of date.

Edit: See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2775055/looking-for-replacement-for-snippet-compiler for more up-to-date alternatives

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I have created a lightweight version of Visual Studio. It is essentially just the packages required to get MSBuild.exe working.

The installer is a PowerShell script that sets the necessary variables, registry keys and files.

Comparison

Visual Studio 2013

790 MB

Velour

168 MB