[IronPython] Announcing IronPython 2.0 VS10 CTP

[Dody Gunawinata]

Hmm..is there any hosted VPC made available? I'm based in Cairo and a 23GB
download will probably tie up the whole bandwidth of Africa.
Dody G.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org>wrote:

> Watch the the videos from the PDC, once they're posted.  I know that some
> of your questions about use of DynamicObject from within C# are answered by
> Jim Hugunin's talk.  Also, if you can download the 23 GB(!) VPC image with
> the Visual Studio 2010 CTP, you'll be able to try the walkthroughs -- and I
> think that one specifically addresses the XML scenario.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Dody Gunawinata <empirebuilder at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'd call it missed opportunity if what C# 4.0 dynamic does is only to
>> provide the same facilities that VB6 or VB.Net have provided long time ago.
>> For example, the COM interop thing is nice, but then for the past 8 years
>> you know that if you want to script some Office or COM objects you don't use
>> C# or IronPython or (insert dynamic language).
>> But it looks like there are more here. DynamicObject type and
>> IDynamicObject looks intriguing and I wonder it finally allows more natural
>> XML or ActiveRecord object access via property call
>> like myDocument.Customer.Name.FirstName without resorting to some static
>> code generation. I also wonder if this also allows C# to simulate open
>> classes just by putting a hashtable of object and stuff delegate, data,
>> property into them .
>>
>>
>> Dody G.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:36:05 +0200, "Dody Gunawinata"
>>> <empirebuilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Yup. It looks like more information needed on all of these dynamic
>>> features.
>>> > In the first glance it looks like C# 4.0 is turning into VB 6  :)
>>> >
>>>
>>> Are you saying that would be a bad thing?  Let us recall that VB6 was
>>> arguably the most successful release in Visual Basic history.  There are
>>> still people who won't allow themselves to be dragged away from VB6,
>>> more than a decade after its release.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Users mailing list
>>> Users at lists.ironpython.com
>>> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> nomadlife.org
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users at lists.ironpython.com
>> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
>>
>>
>


-- 
nomadlife.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ironpython-users/attachments/20081028/5ac729a3/attachment.html>