The problem you're running into is that we won't expose the Python type by the 
names you compile it as - this is the weirdness you're seeing versus a C# 
compiled assembly.

There's a couple of ways to deal with this.  One is to host IronPython and use 
the PythonEngine interfaces to expose objects, create instances, etc...  This 
is the preferred mechanism - for your scenario you may need to make a small 
shim in C# that enables access to the IronPython engine because we don't mark 
the type as being ComVisible (and we explicitly turn off COM visibility for all 
types in the assembly unless they opt-in).  I'm actually not certain if our 
types that get created on the fly are COM visible, but even if they are 
IDispatch currently won't know about the way we plug-in here.

We also have a HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL static type compiler - unfortunately there 
is plenty of valid Python code that can't be compiled by it yet so I'd suggest 
you go with the 1st route.

This is a very interesting scenario though and we'll probably want to look at 
what we can do in the future to make this better.  If you want to let us know 
more about what you're trying to accomplish in the end it might help us ensure 
this meets your needs in the future.



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc-André 
Belzile
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 11:11 AM
To: users@lists.ironpython.com
Subject: [IronPython] IronPython interop problem

Hello,

I'm hosting the CLR (.NET 2.0) in an unmanaged C++ app in order to access 
objects from .NET assemblies with IDispatch. This is working fine for C# 
assemblies but failed for IP assemblies.

The call to _AppDomain.CreateInstance below returns this error: 80131522, which 
I couldn't find in the doc.

My unmanaged code:

        CComPtr<_AppDomain> spAppDomain;
        HRESULT hr = pDomain->QueryInterface( &spAppDomain.p );
        assert( !hr );

        CComPtr<_ObjectHandle> spHandle;
        CComBSTR assyname("IronPythonPlugin");
        CComBSTR classname("MyClass");

        hr = spAppDomain->CreateInstance( assyname,classname,&spHandle );

My test class in

        class MyClass:
                def Foo():
                        pass

I compiled the PI assbly with VS2005 using the IDE prototype. The IL code looks 
rather odd though compared to a C# assbly.

___[MOD] 
S:\Rayflex\Sdk\si3dobjectmodel\IronPythonPlugin\bin\Debug\IronPythonPlugin.dll
   |      M A N I F E S T
   |___[CLS] Class
   |   |     .class public auto ansi
   |   |      extends [IronPython]IronPython.Runtime.CustomDict
   |   |___[STF] ExtraKeysCache : public static string[]
   |   |___[STF] MyClass : public static object
   |   |___[STF] __doc__ : public static object
   |   |___[STF] __name__ : public static object
   |   |___[STF] myModule__py : public static class 
[IronPython]IronPython.Runtime.PythonModule
   |   |___[STM] .cctor : void()
   |   |___[MET] .ctor : void()
   |   |___[STM] Foo$f4 : object(class 
[IronPython]IronPython.Runtime.FunctionEnvironment4)
   |   |___[MET] GetExtraKeys : object[]()
   |   |___[MET] Initialize : void()
   |   |___[STM] Main : int32()
   |   |     MyClass$maker4 : class 
[mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary`2<object,object>(class 
[IronPython]IronPython.Runtime.FunctionEnvironment,class 
[IronPython]IronPython.Runtime.ICallerContext)
   |   |___[MET] TryGetExtraValue : bool(object,object&)
   |   |___[MET] TrySetExtraValue : bool(object,object)
   |

Is this a known limitation ? Or maybe there is another way of getting at IP 
classes from unmanaged code ?

thanks for your help!

Marc-André BELZILE - sdk software engineer, softimage|xsi 
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