Hi, the hosting system in the DLR seems to be responsible for IronPython classes to make known in the dotNet world. For me as a beginner in IronPython and Silverlight is not as easy to understand. How do I get in a pure iron python / Silverlight application (generated with sl.bat) the Python engine? My goal would be to create a code behind file. I would have more opportunities to program Silverlight IronPython.
Thanks in advance for answering, Greetings Sven Hi Sven, Finding out about how to get Silverlight and IronPython working together is quite tricky as the documentation is incomplete where it exists at all. I've been working on it for some time now and am starting to get an idea of what you can do. I am also using python as codebehind to Silverlight controls and pages so it's definitely possible. In fact Silverlight/python (or ruby) is a compelling combination that is in many ways superior to Silverlight/c#. I am surprised more people aren't pursuing it. I would suggest the best place to start would be to install PTVS (from http://pytools.codeplex.com/), which is more mature and robust than the VS tools included with ironpython. Note that you will need to uninstall the ironpython VS tools first. PTVS provides a Silverlight project template that lets you embed python scripts in an html page but I don't think this is really what you want. However you can create proper IronPython/Silverlight applications relatively easily, there is just no template or documentation for it for some reason. See the workaround suggested (by me:)) in this feature request: http://pytools.codeplex.com/workitem/34. Once you have that working you should be able to achieve python codebehind. I am doing it using some Silverlight plumbing that reads in .xaml files (using XamlReader.Load(<xamlstring>)) and then executes a codebehind .xaml.py file with the same name. You could do it with pure python though if you want. I have to be honest and say that it's probably not going to be especially easy if you are a beginner in both python and Silverlight because the documentation is so poor... Anyway, hope that helps a bit and good luck. Bill _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
