Question

I’m trying to use the WPF Toolkit with my Visual 2010 project (I’m interested in the chart controls found in the System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization namespace), but cannot figure out which assembly to reference.

I’ve installed the toolkit and it seems to have installed into C:\Program Files (x86)\WPF Toolkit\v3.5.50211.1. I’ve read some posts about how I might need to copy the assemblies to the GAC but I attempted this and the following code:

import clr
clr.AddReference("WPFToolkit")

still fails.

Has anyone used WPF Toolkit lately with VS2010? How did you add a reference to it?

Answer 1

import sys, clr
sys.path.append(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\WPF Toolkit\v3.5.50211.1')
clr.AddReference("WPFToolkit")

You may also need to be running the .NET 2 version of IronPython 2.6, since the WPFToolkit site doesn’t say if it’s compatible with .NET 4.