Question

I found “Ruby in Steel,” but that (I think) only works with visual studio 2008 and doesn’t support the new WPF/XAML.

Is there such a thing or are these pipe dreams? 🙂

Answer 1

Look at DiskUse project in your IronRuby 1.1\Samples\ directory. It uses WPF and XAML. For example, it’s how they load xaml:

module DialogUtil
  def load_xaml(filename)
    f = IO::FileStream.new(filename, IO::FileMode.Open, IO::FileAccess.Read)
    begin
      element = Markup::XamlReader::Load(f)
    ensure
      f.close
    end
    element
  end

  module_function :load_xaml
end 

and then using it:

@window = DialogUtil.load_xaml("mainWindow.xaml")
@window.closing { @app.shutdown }
@windowTitle = @window.title
...
@window.show

And yes, it works OK with VS2010 – http://ironruby.codeplex.com/