Sheldon: A WPF IronPython Console Control

Sheldon is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, the Windows user interface library that is part of .NET 3) component for embedding an interactive interpreter into a .NET application.

Embedding IronPython is one of the core use cases for IronPython and whilst I have seen several Windows Forms Console components, but this is one of the first reusable WPF one I'm aware of.

This sample was created to pitch an idea to a client about enabling a macro system in their application. Users might be able to make use of functions like OpenAccount("ACME"), ExecuteJob("SalesForecast2009"), and so on. Using the Command Pattern, commands could be written to an Output window in the application while the user uses the UI - that could be used as a learning tool for learning the command line.
 

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