TechEd 2007 - Silverlight, ASP.NET and Web Services in IronPython & IronRuby

Silverlight, ASP.NET and Web Services in IronPython & IronRuby
Mahesh Prakriya

Nowadays there a lot has been talked about Dynamic Languages like Ruby or Python. This session was about an implementation of those in the .NET Framework.
Mahesh showed how to use these languages as a replacement of managed javascript in Silverlight programming. You can find the demos he used and some more in Codeplex.

He showed some programming in ASP.NET using IronPython. There is a major difference when programming in dynamic languages: they are not compiled, allowing on-the-fly code changes. The code is compiled as needed.

Finally there was an example about how to call web services in IronPython with just a few lines of code using a library named Dynamic Web Services Helper which can be found in Codeplex.


Mahesh will be in Sapo Codebits (Lisbon) making an presentation about this subject next Monday.
He will be also in Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Monte da Caparica) at 10 am in the some kind of presentation.

If you can, go there. He is a great speaker and the subject is great!