The Manifold Command Window provides a dialog for writing and executing queries in SQL and for interactively writing and executing scripts in programming languages using the Command window as a REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) console for the specified language. Launch using Ctrl-Tilde (the ~ character) or View - New Command Window - SQL.
SQL |
Manifold's Radian parallel query database engine is built into Manifold and thus provides an always-on ability to write and to execute SQL queries. Launch using Ctrl-Tilde (the ~ character) or View - New Command Window - SQL. |
IronPython and IronRuby |
These languages will be available if we have installed Manifold using the portable installation that includes both IronPython and IronRuby. If we have installed Manifold using an .exe installation package we must install IronPython and IronRuby using additional installation packages as described on the Manifold web site. |
Other Languages |
If we create a script by right-clicking into the Project pane and choosing New Script, the dialog allows us to choose the script language from C#, F#, IronPython, IronRuby, JavaScript, JScript, JScript.NET PerlScript, PythonScript, VB.NET and VBScript. Because Manifold requires installation of Microsoft .NET all of the languages included in .NET or COM are also automatically available, namely C#, JScript, JScript.NET, VB.NET and VBScript. |
Important:
The View - Command Window
command includes IronPython and IronRuby in the list along with SQL but
only SQL is guaranteed
to always be available. We
may need to install IronPython and IronRuby from separately downloaded
installation packages for them to be available.
Command windows will pop open automatically when we open a query or a script component in the project pane by double-clicking on it, to allow us to edit that query or script.
See the Command Window topic for an extended discussion using SQL. For information on scripting, see the Manifold API Documentation website.