I’m on my way to my second spike for one of my clients on playing with ScriptSharp to extend Rasta with Ajax functionality, and really wanted to be able to select elements as I would in CSS, using selectors (something I got quite used to with jQuery).
ScriptSharp comes with various assemblies you can link to. The one called sscorlib is a .net mapping over a javascript library that extends document to have a getElementsBySelector method. But for some reason, ScriptSharp doesn’t map that method.
So how do you call random code in ScriptSharp without resorting to evil eval code? You create a function of course! Here’s the snippet.
public static DOMElement[] GetElementsBySelector(string selector, DOMElement root)
{
return new Function("return document.getElementsBySelector(selector, arg);", "selector", "arg")
.Call(Document.DocumentElement, selector, root) as DOMElement[];
}
We define a function that calls the correct javascript code, declare the argument names we will pass it, and finally call it by passing our selector and the root.
In one word, sweet.
