A typical FAST ESP solution has multiple collections. For example, there might be a collection for the data crawled and indexed Sharepoint , another collection for data crawled from a database using JDBC Connector and so on. Suppose that you are developing...

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We are happy to announce the release of the DLR Project in Codeplex . This beta of the v0.9 of the DLR consists of a source and binary release . This excellent release note by our PM Bill Chiles gives a nice short overview of what's in this release. We...

The recent beta release of the DLR allows the usage of LINQ and other CSharp 3.0 features in an application that hosts the DLR. Harry , our IronPython PM has a detailed post explaining why this was not possible before and whats changed now.

This previous post demonstrates the use of App.Config files to create script runtimes to host dynamic languages in an application. It is also possible to create runtimes without using a config file. The API to create a runtime and a python engine without...

Due to the recent changes to the DLR Hosting API , dlr hosts now have to use the App.Config file to configure the languages they intend to use in the application. It’s probably a little bit more complex than before to get started on Hosting the DLR after...

The latest version of the Hosting API spec is available here . The most recent source code drop to the IronPython codeplex site conforms to this spec (except for some open bugs). The biggest change this spec introduces to the beta4 binaries is the...

The factory methods used to create a ScriptScope object have overloads that take a 'IAttributeCollection' object to create the scope using the collection as a backing store. This feature is very useful and any app that needs non trivial Hosting would...

ScriptScope is one of the key types available in the DLR Hosting API. They act as a context in which hosts execute code and record the effects of execution like changes in object values, creation of new objects etc. Prior to any code execution, ScriptScopes...

IronPython 2.0 Beta 4 has been released here . Since the DLR and Hosting API components ship with IronPython, this beta also contains newer versions of Hosting API. So you can use this version to try out any of the Hosting API samples from this blog’s...

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The DLR Hosting API lets the hosted script instantiate objects of types defined in the hosting C# / VB module. This post describes how to do that using the appropriate methods from the API. Here are the simple steps - 1) Load the assembly containing...

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The DLR Hosting API offers a well defined interface for managed applications to host and utilize the power of the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) to enable end user scripting. The objective of this sample (and the forthcoming series of posts based on this...

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Like I wrote in my previous post , the Hosting API lets you do some very interesting and powerful things with the DLR. One of the things I had listed was the ability to invoke a method implemented in python from C#. This post describes how to set up...

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Here is the announcement from Soma . This provides a good backdrop for me to update my personal status. I am now part of the Visual C# QA team. My area of resposibility is the compiler's support for intellisense and its interaction with the IDE. So please...

The long wait is over. the Visual Studio.Net 2003 is available in microsoft.com. Use this link to download it. Happy patching :-)

The number of blogs in MSDN (at the time of writing this entry) is 3146. It's pretty safe to assume that more than 99% of the entries paint a positive picture about Microsoft, its practices and its culture. Its interesting to see that even all of these...

1>stdafx.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void * __cdecl operator new[](unsigned int,struct std::_DebugHeapTag_t const &,char *,int)" (??_U@YAPAXIABU_DebugHeapTag_t@std@@PADH@Z) referenced in function "public: char * __cdecl std...

I bought a Sony Ericsson W550i 2 months back. Its a great phone and gives excellent value for its cost. So all was well and i thought i will live happily ever after. But no, since yesterday the phone is stuck in WSOD - White Screen of Death. The phone...

I feel sad that Robert scoble is moving out of MSFT. Ironically the news came exactly on the day I finished reading his book - Naked Conversations. I had spent the last 2-3 weeks reading the book and appreciating how much he has impacted Microsoft and...

WinFX will hence be called .NET Framework 3.0. Read more about this at Soma 's blog and find answers to some questions on this at jasonz 's blog. Soma is the VP of Dev Div and Jason is the GM for the .NET FW – Dev FX group. So please let them have your...