Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby for Office AddIns

2010-12-03 Thread Jimmy Schementi
Jascha, You're need to write a small host for IronRuby in a static .NET language, as the Office add-in API most likely requires an actual assembly with actual CLR types to be loaded. However, with a minimal shim to host IronRuby in an office add-in, you can then write the actual logic of your add-

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby for Office AddIns

2010-12-01 Thread Tinco Andringa
You can download Visual C# Express for free. There is also the MonoDevelop IDE which is free. Beside that you can use any text editor together with the ironruby and c# compiler to work in any way you want :) I am not certain how the Office addin's work but usually that kind of thing works with a (

[Ironruby-core] IronRuby for Office AddIns

2010-12-01 Thread Jascha Luelsdorf
Hi, I'd like to write an Outlook(2003 & 2010)-AddIn in Ruby (IronRuby), but I'm not pretty sure, whether this is possible. The AddIn should bring up a new icon in Outlooks' CommandBar and should read contact items. I just found some examples, where they put Ruby-Code into a C#-Wrapper what is not