Re: [IronPython] Embedding IronPython in MS-Office (fwd)

2009-11-15 Thread Joshua Kramer
A while back, Slide wrote: You'd have to write an add-in for office that hosted the .NET runtime and provided a hosting API that IP could interact with. I don't think this would be a small undertaking. Hmm. Is there any way to have MSO see IPY as a Scripting or Macro Language, like it sees

Re: [IronPython] Embedding IronPython in MS-Office (fwd)

2009-11-15 Thread Curt Hagenlocher
VBA is embedded pretty tightly into Word and Excel; there's no way to swap it out for another scripting engine. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Joshua Kramer j...@globalherald.netwrote: A while back, Slide wrote: You'd have to write an add-in for office that hosted the .NET runtime and

Re: [IronPython] Embedding IronPython in MS-Office (fwd)

2009-11-15 Thread Slide
I think Office is tied to ActiveScripting which is COM based. I am not sure any ActiveScripting language will work either, they may have it tied directly to VBA as was said earlier. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Curt Hagenlocher c...@hagenlocher.orgwrote: VBA is embedded pretty tightly into