You can download Visual C# Express for free. There is also the MonoDevelop IDE which is free. Beside that you can use any text editor together with the ironruby and c# compiler to work in any way you want :)
I am not certain how the Office addin's work but usually that kind of thing works with a (.net) dll that exposes some interface implementation. I'd advice you to look into what kind of interface Office has, and wether you can do this by compiling a ruby file to a dll, or making a small c# wrapper which invokes the ruby code in a separate file or embedded resource. I hope I gave you some terms to google :) Cheers, Tinco On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 13:37, Jascha Luelsdorf <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to write an Outlook(2003 & 2010)-AddIn in Ruby (IronRuby), but > I'm not pretty sure, whether this is possible. > The AddIn should bring up a new icon in Outlooks' CommandBar and should > read contact items. > > I just found some examples, where they put Ruby-Code into a C#-Wrapper > what is not what I want. > > The main thing I want to avoid (to be honest) is that I don't want to > have to buy Visual Studio for a couple of hundreds (thousands?) of > dollars. > > I am new to the whole .NET-World and I'm not much into the concept by > now. > > Can you give me a hint to point me in the right direction? > > > Thanks, > > Josch > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
