.NET Interactive takes the power of .NET and embeds it into your interactive experiences. Share code, explore data, write, and learn across your apps in ways you couldn't before.
.NET Interactive IS .NET UNLEASHED
Project Jupyter is a popular platform for creating interactive notebooks that can be used for data science, documentation, DevOps, and much more.
There are several ways to get started using .NET with Jupyter, including Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, and nteract.
- Try sample .NET notebooks online using Binder. This also allows you try out our daily builds, which include preview features of F# 5.
- Install .NET Interactive to create and run .NET notebooks on your machine.
- Share your own .NET notebooks with others online using Binder.
- Use .NET Interactive with nteract
Work is underway to add support for the new Visual Studio Code native notebook feature. While we are still in the early stages of this effort, if you'd like to experiment with it you can find instructions here. If you'd like to contribute, start here.
You can find additional documentation here.
We provide a number of packages that can be used to write custom extensions for .NET Interactive or to build your own interactive experiences.
| Package | Version | Description |
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Microsoft.dotnet-interactive |
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The dotnet-interactive global tool |
Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive |
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Core types for building applications providing interactive programming for .NET. |
Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Formatting |
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Convention-based and highly configurable .NET object formatting for interactive programming, including support for mime types suitable for building visualizations for Jupyter Notebooks and web browsers. |
Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.FSharp |
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Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Kernel implementation for F# |
Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.CSharp |
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Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Kernel implementation for C# |
You can contribute to .NET Interactive with issues and pull requests. Simply filing issues for problems you encounter is a great way to contribute. Contributing code improvements is greatly appreciated. You can read more about our contribution guidelines here.
| Azure Synapse Analytics | Azure HDInsight (HDI) |
|---|---|
| Azure Synapse Analytics uses the .NET kernel to write and run quick ad-hoc queries in addition to developing complete, end-to-end big data scenarios, such as reading in data, transforming it, and visualizing it | You can launch Jupyter notebooks from your HDInsight cluster to run big data queries against the compute resources in that cluster. |