Active Scripting on the server side

Question

I am considering writing a NT service. The service will need scripting capabilities. Users can write some VBScript/JScript code and feed the server.

I also want the script be able to debug in Microsoft Script Debugger.

The service will behave in a similar way as IIS with classic ASP. It gets input from somewhere else. When it get input, it runs the script user provided.

Right now all information I can found is MFC related. If I do not use MFC, how difficult to write such a program? Has anyone done this before?

Answer 1

I haven't done it but... some ideas

• consider using Powershell. Search for "remote runspace" or look into Hanselman's old article on it. I'm not sure if this made it into Powershell v2, but there was some talk of it.
• investigate PowershellTunnel.
• look into .NET 4.0 and the DLR.
• an article on using cscript.exe to host dynamically entered vbscript
• similar interactive JavaScript shell - you'd have to grab hold of stdin/stdout differently