Microsoft Visual Studio upgrade holds dynamic language capabilities

Microsoft is busy factoring in the growing use of dynamic languages in its planned upgrade to the Visual Studio software development platform.

"C# 4.0's major themes are interoperability with dynamic programming paradigms and improved Office programmability. Dynamic lookup, a new feature in C# 4.0, allows you to use and manipulate an object from IronPython, IronRuby, JScript, the HTML DOM, or a standard .Net library in the same way, no matter where it came from," Somasegar said.

A dynamic keyword capability in C# 4.0 allows a type to be resolved dynamically at runtime rather than in a static fashion compiled at runtime. "This allows dynamic languages to expose their objects to C# in a way that feels natural to a C# programmer," Somasegar said.

from: http://infoworld.com/print/88433