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Now that I’ve got your attention, lets talk about IronRuby and WPF. Allow me divert your attention to another guest post I wrote for Eric Nelson, an architect and platform evangelist here at Microsoft.

You may recall about a week ago I wrote a a brief introduction to IronRuby, introducing some of the concepts, addressing the advantages of building with the .NET Framework and briefly talking about running pre-existing code with it to demonstrate compatibility. This time, I’ve taken it a bit further and gone through writing an application from the ground up — this time using WPF, the .NET libraries responsible for drawing awesome graphics, UIs and animations. On top of this, I’ve elaborated a bit on interoperability with the CLR.

This sample app I’ve built is what I consider the ‘hello, world’ of WPF applications — well, perhaps simply printing “hello, world” on the screen would be more apt, maybe this is more of a “bonjour, tout le monde” — an analogue clock face. A very simple data visualisation we’re all very familiar with.

Anyway I hope you enjoy the article, and if you happen to be attending the Scottish Ruby Conference later this month, please go ahead and pay Eric and I a visit. We’ll be happy to talk further on the topics of IronRuby, .NET, Ruby in general and maybe even Azure — more on that hopefully in a later post.

That link again is:

• Using IronRuby and .NET to produce the ‘Hello World of WPF’