I’ve just got back from a joint session with Shay at the local .NET user group, I’ve presented IronPython after an excellent IronRuby session done by Shay. One example I didn’t have the time to show was how to run IronPython script from within C# code. After the session I was asked by a group … Continue reading How to run IronPython code from C#
A few years ago I’ve decided to learn IronPython and so I’ve read a book, wrote some code and blogged about my experience. I really enjoyed coding in Python and the connection with .NET seemed to be promising – that is until Microsoft pulled the plug on IronPython and its sister language IronRuby. I felt … Continue reading IronPython lives!
Welcome to the 3rd part of my quest to learn IronPython. In this part I’ll show how I’ve unit tested my application. Previous parts of this series: Where to start – resources, environment and how I’ve started learning IronPython Let’s write some code – the project I’m writing along with my impressions of how things … Continue reading Getting started with IronPython – Part 3: unit testing
It seems to me that there is a lot of talk about the new .NET Dynamic Languages lately. Because I wanted to see what the DLR was all about I will learn IronPython as part of my quest to learn new programming languages. Learning new language When I learn a new programming language I look … Continue reading Getting started with IronPython – Part 1 where to start
It always amazes me how some tasks are easier using dynamic languages. AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) is just one more thing that can be done easily using Python – at least to some extent.Python has a powerful language feature that makes it all happen – called “Function Decorator” and this is how you use it: … Continue reading Aspect Oriented Programming in Python using Decorators
A while back I had a build script used to build a project from its sources and run automatic tests on that code. Each time a new test assembly was added I needed to add a line to my build script to run that assembly. From time to time I forgot to update my build … Continue reading #Nose 1.1 Released
One of the benefits of programming in C#/VB.NET is amount of tools available – from Visual Studio to build servers to unit testing frameworks it seems that there is a tool for every job. I thought that my .NET tool belt has everything I need until recently, while learning Python (actually IronPython) I’ve discovered Python-Nose … Continue reading #Nose – the unit test discovery tool
System.Xml.XmlWriter provides an easy and lightweight way to write xml strings, unfortunately it has a little gotcha. consider the following xml string (borrowed from IronPython in Action): Using XmlWriter the following code is needed to create that string: Keep in mind the fact that the code above only creates 5 lines of xml, and as … Continue reading XmlWriter that automatically close elements using IDisposable
Although there is some time until the official release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has been kind enough to provide us early adopters a beta version to play with. Fortunately for me in I had actual work to do using the new visual studio and decided it was a good fit for me. I especially … Continue reading 4 Reasons I can’t wait for VS2010
Every .NET developer I know use Visual Studio at his work to develop applications. But what IDE can a software developer developing his own a hobby/open source project use? I use #Develop for most of my hobby projects (although from time to time I use VS Express as well). In case you’re wondering what #Develop … Continue reading #Develop – The open source .NET IDE
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