On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Jeff wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Chad Brockman <cha...@slb.com> >> wrote: >> > I see Silverlight 5 now has something besides simple reflection >> > (ICustomTypeProvider) - >> > >> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg986857(v=VS.96).aspx#data >> > >> > Will we see an update to Iron*/DLR to support binding to dynamic >> > objects any time soon? This will open fantastic options for using >> > IronPython in Silverlight. >> >> If someone provides a patch, yes. >> >> We actually need someone with an interest in Silverlight to keep an eye on it >> and make sure that we don't break SL support and new features like this. We >> don't have anyone in that role right now. > > If anyone's interested on working on this it'd probably mean adding an > implementation > of this onto OldInstance as well as adding it onto our new-style instances > whose > classes are created by NewTypeMaker. Adding the interface is probably pretty > easy, > making it return useful things may be a little more difficult. > > I'm a little surprised they didn't go with the already existing > ICustomTypeDescriptor.
Are you really surprised? :) It is still in Beta. Maybe there's a slight chance their minds could be changed? I'm guessing they don't have the rest of System.ComponentModel either, so they didn't want to add just one interface. - Jeff _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
