Bindings for Silveright

Jimmy,

I heard on the Sparkling Clieent Podcast that you wrote in
silverlight.netabout Silverlight and Dynamic Languages, they mentioned
that bindings to
dynamic objects work now. I can’t find any info about this. Do you have
the
link to this? Is this actually supported (I’m thinking it was probably a
mistake from the person who mentioned it).
By the way, there’s a bug in
connecthttp://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/522119/databinding-to-dynamic-objects-is-brokenabout
this that is still active.

(I write it here, since I think this might be of interest to everyone)

Databinding to Dynamic Objects in Silverlight 4 is not supported.
However, IronPython supports a feature that does enable databinding in
Silverlight, but it requires that you adorn your code with static-type
information:
LC Blog: INotifyPropertyChanged and databinding in Silverlight.
However, this is not supported in IronRuby today, as there is no way to
provide that static type information, though it’s on the roadmap.

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Subject: [Ironruby-core] Bindings for Silveright

Jimmy,

I heard on the Sparkling Clieent Podcast that you wrote in
silverlight.nethttp://silverlight.net about Silverlight and Dynamic
Languages, they mentioned that bindings to dynamic objects work now. I
can’t find any info about this. Do you have the link to this? Is this
actually supported (I’m thinking it was probably a mistake from the
person who mentioned it).
By the way, there’s a bug in
connecthttp://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/522119/databinding-to-dynamic-objects-is-broken
about this that is still active.

(I write it here, since I think this might be of interest to everyone)

That’s great.

As a sort of related topic, I’m wondering if this could actually help us
consume ‘Dynamic’ components from tools like Blend. I know that this
doesn’t
mean we’ll have an assembly that we can reference, but I’m thinking of
something like having a small dll that could be pointed to a dynamic
object
that could provide a list of types (for components) which in turn could
provide information about their properties and methods.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Jimmy S. <