Make Your Application Extendable Using the DLR
IronShay has posted an article on extending applications by hosting the Dynamic Language Runtime. He shows code for adding Python or Ruby scripting to an example Windows Forms application written in C#.
It’s very common for applications to have a way to extend them. Extensibility comes in various ways and have multiple names too – plug-ins, add-ins, addons, etc. It seems, though, that one kind of extensibility was left to the very few – application macros.
The concept is very simple – You don’t need to create a special Dll, implement a specific interface and register it somehow, you don’t even have to install an IDE. All you have to do is to open the relevant window, write some code and voila – you’ve extended the application.
This sample is very simple but it took me about 20 minutes to get it done. It’s just magic!
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