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I spent the weekend trying to dive into Microsoft.Scripting, AKA the DLR, and between chasing my son and various trips to the store I was able to grok some of the framework. I hope to start posting more in depth content about how IronRuby is actually implemented on the DLR. I also spent some time with Silverlight and ended up throwing out a VM that was probably ok. A couple things I learned about silverlight over the weekend :

Don’t install 1.0 RC and 1.1 alpha, the 1.1 alpha is backwards compatible. (thanks Wilco).
The 1.0 SDK requires VS.net 2005, so don’t download it if you are trying to go Orcas only.
There were enough breaking changes between the past version and this version that not all silverlight pages may work right now if you’ve done the upgrade, so don’t throw out your VM because you can’t get Zero Gravity working
The DLR console is WAY cool.
Windows 2008 makes a perfectly good platform to development on once you turn on the “desktop experience” and turn off IE Enhanced Security.

Now the weekend links :
Mark (m2web) posts a Windows.Forms sample using Ironruby to create forms, and trap events.
A new IronRuby blog is up as well, and mentions IronMonkey, an effort to bring IronPython and IronRuby scripting to firefox.

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