[IronPython] Developing Silverlight apps using IronPython -- best strategies

[Lukas Cenovsky]

  On 2.7.2010 20:02, Jan-Philip Gehrcke wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm totally new to Silverlight (SL) development and it seems that I 
> can benefit from my Python experience by combining SL with IronPython 
> (at which I've never looked before, too). In the last days, I crawled 
> the web and tried to get an impression of what is the best way to 
> start. During this time, some questions came up...
>
> 1) What is the cutting-edge way to deploy an SL4/IP2.6 application?
> I've basically seen two:
>     - The "all-in-xap-way", with the python application and assemblies 
> as well as the XAML in the xap file, as it is described in the article 
> series at 
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/silverlight_application.shtml
>     - The "Gestalt way", with some magic inside, allowing to place 
> XAML/Python code directly in the HTML
> Is the first way out-of-date? Are there more techniques? What are 
> advantages/disadvantages?

If you want to use "all-in-xap-way" with some .dlls served (and cached) 
separately, see my blog: 
http://gui-at.blogspot.com/2010/05/distributing-silverlight-application.html


> 4) Code compilation: Is it possible to develop using IP, but to only 
> deploy compiled binaries?
> I've stumbled over Pyc. How to use it within the best approach of 
> question (1)? My naive mind sees two possible advantages:
>     - Could this be a solution to the traffic problem in question (2), 
> i.e. would this do without IP assembly provisioning?
>     - For some developers it could be attractive for code obfuscation.
> I have the feeling that things are not that easy...

There were some promises about compilation... If you want it, vote for 
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/25680

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-- Lukas