Okay this is going to sound really dumb. Skeet, you can poke fun of me
in your own special way if you see fit.

Is there a way to reproduce the CLASSPATH functionality of Java within
C#? Would there ever be a reason to do this? Is there a reason *not*
to do this? There must be, I think, or there would probably be a
CLASSPATH environment variable.

I'm tired of typing /r:... at the command line. I have an IDE, and I
use it, but on some systems there is no IDE and when I want to make a
quick code change and recompile, there's no CLASSPATH to help me.

Why no CLASSPATH environment variable equivalent?

jeremiah johnson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is there a way to reproduce the CLASSPATH functionality of Java within
> C#? Would there ever be a reason to do this? Is there a reason *not*
> to do this? There must be, I think, or there would probably be a
> CLASSPATH environment variable.
>
> I'm tired of typing /r:... at the command line. I have an IDE, and I
> use it, but on some systems there is no IDE and when I want to make a
> quick code change and recompile, there's no CLASSPATH to help me.
>
> Why no CLASSPATH environment variable equivalent?

One thing you can do is to use a custom response file if you find
yourself using the same references frequently. An example (and the one
used by default) is in the .NET framework directory - csc.rsp. You can
specify one on the command line by doing

csc @foo.rsp X.cs Y.cs etc

I don't know of any environment variables which do the same, but they
may be there.

Interestingly, these days I think Java developers tend to try to avoid
using the CLASSPATH environment variable, preferring to explicitly
specify the jars/paths on the command line. There are advantages and
disadvantages of both ways, however.

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:
> jeremiah johnson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Is there a way to reproduce the CLASSPATH functionality of Java within
>> C#? Would there ever be a reason to do this? Is there a reason *not*
>> to do this? There must be, I think, or there would probably be a
>> CLASSPATH environment variable.
>>
>> I'm tired of typing /r:... at the command line. I have an IDE, and I
>> use it, but on some systems there is no IDE and when I want to make a
>> quick code change and recompile, there's no CLASSPATH to help me.
>>
>> Why no CLASSPATH environment variable equivalent?
>
> One thing you can do is to use a custom response file if you find
> yourself using the same references frequently. An example (and the one
> used by default) is in the .NET framework directory - csc.rsp. You can
> specify one on the command line by doing
>
> csc @foo.rsp X.cs Y.cs etc
>
> I don't know of any environment variables which do the same, but they
> may be there.
>
> Interestingly, these days I think Java developers tend to try to avoid
> using the CLASSPATH environment variable, preferring to explicitly
> specify the jars/paths on the command line. There are advantages and
> disadvantages of both ways, however.
>

I didn't know about response files. Thanks a ton, Jon. This will save
me a lot of typing.

I have never done at command line... but just a thought, can't you keep a
batch file and just run it when you have no IDE?? I maybe way of line
here...

VJ

"jeremiah johnson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Okay this is going to sound really dumb. Skeet, you can poke fun of me in
> your own special way if you see fit.
>
> Is there a way to reproduce the CLASSPATH functionality of Java within C#?
> Would there ever be a reason to do this? Is there a reason *not* to do
> this? There must be, I think, or there would probably be a CLASSPATH
> environment variable.
>
> I'm tired of typing /r:... at the command line. I have an IDE, and I use
> it, but on some systems there is no IDE and when I want to make a quick
> code change and recompile, there's no CLASSPATH to help me.
>
> Why no CLASSPATH environment variable equivalent?