[IronPython] Need help in learning.

[Shawn Farkas]

True enough, however the MSDN docs should start to move over to the main MSDN site relatively soon now, since 2.0 has officially shipped.  Msdn2.microsoft.com is their staging server to get pre-release stuff setup before it ships.

-Shawn

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From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of J. Merrill
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 6:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [IronPython] Need help in learning.

That script searches the release docn for .Net (1.x).  IP relies on .Net 2, so I think the .Start line should be
     Process.Start("http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/searchbeta/Default.aspx?" + query)

Otherwise, some results will be missing or perhaps incomplete (or, rarely, incorrect).

At 04:27 PM 10/31/2005, Shawn Farkas wrote



Pretty easily done with a quick script:



import sys

sys.LoadAssemblyByName("System")

from System import String

from System.Diagnostics import Process



def msdn(query):

            if query.GetType() == String.Empty.GetType():

                        Process.Start("http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?View=msdn&st=b&c=4&s=1&swc=4&qu=" + query)

            else:

                        msdn(query.GetType().FullName)



Will launch the MSDN help page in the user s default browser.  I m not sure if there s a nicer way to determine if the parameter is a string or not, and this also relies on the fact that the browser will normalize the query string (if it contains a space for instance) & but will break if you query contains the & character.  However, for debugging purposes, if you throw that in your site.py you re all set J



-Shawn


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From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Peli de Halleux (PELI)
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [IronPython] Need help in learning.



Following up the improving the experience for new .Net users, IronPython could provide specialized commands to search msdn and pop up a internet window. For example something like

    msdn "System.Security.Cryptography.SignedXml.ComputeSignature"   // search based on literal

    msdn foo    // search based on the object type

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J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp
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