Building IronRuby WPF GUIs

Question

This may be a silly question but I was under the impression that it was possible to use IronRuby and MS Visual Studio 2010 together to sort of build interfaces\\edit XAML in one

Answer 1

In order to build GUIs you should use XAML with WPF. You can create XAML with the editor in Visual Studio. Running a XAML file is possible with:

require "PresentationFramework"
include System::Windows
include System::Windows::Markup

xaml = File.Open('d:/app/window1/xaml', "r").read
@root = System::Windows::Markup::XamlReader.parse(xaml)

app = System::Windows::Application.new
app.run @root

Please refer to IronRuby Unleashed for more information