There literally isn't anything (beyond writing your own operating system level stuff .... and I sure someone did that too ;) ) that I do not see being (already) done with .NET
Want to embed a programming language .... been there done that.
Want to write a highly scale-able object / document database .... done.
Additionally there are a large number of projects that were written first in java and ported to C# (e.g. sharpssh).
And the latest case in point and the reason for this post is a template engine. The StringTemplate. (If you want to learn how to write your own engine ... even that information is available!)
For StringTemplate I suggest that you first view the Five Minute Introduction : http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ST/Five+minute+Introduction
And to see it in use take a look at a code project article : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/codegen/DotNetCodeGeneration.aspx
Next you should look at the cheat sheet : http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ST/StringTemplate+cheat+sheet
One point to note is that stringtemplate takes an innovative approach to for loops. It does this by using anonymous subtemplates.
Basically :
Looping through a hashtables and lists e.g. is covered in an example here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2325782/nested-loop-in-stringtemplate
And if this doesn't suit you (why wouldn't it? ... I'd like to know). Some project from here definitely will : http://csharp-source.net/open-source/template-engines
Enjoy!
Want to embed a programming language .... been there done that.
Want to write a highly scale-able object / document database .... done.
Additionally there are a large number of projects that were written first in java and ported to C# (e.g. sharpssh).
And the latest case in point and the reason for this post is a template engine. The StringTemplate. (If you want to learn how to write your own engine ... even that information is available!)
For StringTemplate I suggest that you first view the Five Minute Introduction : http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ST/Five+minute+Introduction
And to see it in use take a look at a code project article : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/codegen/DotNetCodeGeneration.aspx
Next you should look at the cheat sheet : http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ST/StringTemplate+cheat+sheet
One point to note is that stringtemplate takes an innovative approach to for loops. It does this by using anonymous subtemplates.
Basically :
| <attribute:{anonymous-template}> | Apply an anonymous template to each element of attribute. The iterated it atribute is set automatically. |
| <attribute:{argument-name_ | _anonymous-template}> | Apply an anonymous template to each element of attribute. Set the argument-name to the iterated value and also set it. |
Looping through a hashtables and lists e.g. is covered in an example here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2325782/nested-loop-in-stringtemplate
And if this doesn't suit you (why wouldn't it? ... I'd like to know). Some project from here definitely will : http://csharp-source.net/open-source/template-engines
Enjoy!
Have a look at http://razorengine.codeplex.com/
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