OLE Automation support ON in IronPython 2.0 Beta 4
IronPython 2.0 beta 4 isn't out of the door yet, but already the team are blogging about some of the new features. Shri Borde has a new blog entry about OLE Automation with IronPython, without having to rely on interop assemblies. This makes for easier automation of Excel, Word and any other COM enabled Windows applications.
In previous versions of IronPython trying to doing this without the Primary Interop Assemblies available would try to generate them on the fly (which could take several minutes). But with IronPython 2.0 BEta 4 it should work fine through IDispatch. Shri provides some details of how it works in practise, how it works under the hood, and some of the known issues (including how to turn it off if it causes any problems!).
In previous versions of IronPython trying to doing this without the Primary Interop Assemblies available would try to generate them on the fly (which could take several minutes). But with IronPython 2.0 BEta 4 it should work fine through IDispatch. Shri provides some details of how it works in practise, how it works under the hood, and some of the known issues (including how to turn it off if it causes any problems!).
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