While Visual Studio, and other IDEs, are powerful tools, they can sometimes hinder productivity more than they promote it. You don’t always need, or want, to create a whole new project and solution. scriptcs is a new and exciting open source project that takes the overhead out of writing C# applications. Write and execute C# script files, written with a relaxed syntax that eliminates the need for namespaces and top-level classes, with only a simple text editor and your command prompt. Use NuGet to manage your dependencies and to install Script Packs, which further reduce the amount of code you need to write to setup your favorite frameworks. Inthis session I'll show you how to get started with scriptcs.