How to see what a script does

[mcteague]

I come from a unix background with some modest shell and perl scripting knowledge. So although not a programmer, I am not without some technical skills.

When I download an indicator ninja script here or elsewhere, I see that it is a .cs format. This looks like some sort of compiled code, There is nothing in it that I can look at in an editor.

I would actually prefer to see the pre-compiled code. I want to be able to see what it does and what the logic is. I have security concerns about running code that I really don't know. Also I could learn something by seeing what it does. And I might want to make personal modifications.

So is there anyway for me to look at what these scripts do and how they work before I commit to importing them into ninja trader? If not; do people at ninjatrader actually examine and test uploaded scripts that are uploaded here

Thank you for any help or advice

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello mcteague,
Welcome to the forum and I am happy to assist you.

If you have visual studios installed then you can open the cs file with it. Please refer here to know more

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-2010-express

You can also use Notepad++ to view the cs file

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

[mcteague]

Thanks for the link. Probably a pretty simple question. I am just not that knowledgeable or comfortable in the windows world yet. And having been a wall street system administrator, I might me a bit more security conscious than most.
This is a great application. But I doubt there will be a linux version any time soon.
So I will just have to learn. Thanks again

[koganam]

I come from a unix background with some modest shell and perl scripting knowledge. So although not a programmer, I am not without some technical skills.

When I download an indicator ninja script here or elsewhere, I see that it is a .cs format. This looks like some sort of compiled code, There is nothing in it that I can look at in an editor.

I would actually prefer to see the pre-compiled code. I want to be able to see what it does and what the logic is. I have security concerns about running code that I really don't know. Also I could learn something by seeing what it does. And I might want to make personal modifications.

So is there anyway for me to look at what these scripts do and how they work before I commit to importing them into ninja trader? If not; do people at ninjatrader actually examine and test uploaded scripts that are uploaded here

Thank you for any help or advice

A .cs file is plain old text source code.

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello mcteague,
Thanks for your note.
NinjaTrader is built on .Net Framework and currently runs on Windows OS only.

You can try running NinjaTrader on VirtualBox etc in Linux, however we do not officially support it.