IronPython URLs

Yet another selection of blog entries and articles relating to IronPython from the last few weeks. Upcoming Presentations - Summer Edition The Coding Geekette (Sarah Dutkiewicz) is a regular at .NET and Python conferences speaking, amongst other things, about IronPython. In this blog entry she lists her forthcoming talks: Cleveland .NET group (Python 101 for .NET developer) PyOhio 2009 (Pumping Iron into Python + IronPython Show & Tell) devLink (going cross-platform with C#) There is also quite a bit of IronPython content at the forthcoming EuroPython 2009 in Birmingam (28th June to 4th July): an IronPython tutorial , ArcGIS and IronPython talk , Introduction to IronPython talk , Ironclad talk and a general Python VM panel discussion . IronPython and XHTML A Japanese blog demonstrating how to load and save XML from IronPython - using the .NET APIs and working with namespaces. In this case he is iterating through a directory of XHTML files and adding valid namespace declarations...

ArcGIS is one of the market leaders in the massive Geographical Information System software industry. Alex Willmer has been using the ArcGIS APIs from IronPython and written up the results of some of his experimenting: from ESRI.ArcGIS import Geodatabase On the desktop ArcMap is used to create map documents (.mxd file), whilst ArcCatalog is used to manage data sources. ArcGIS Server can (amongst other things) serve a map document, as a service for web client, Google Earth or remote ArcMap users. ArcGIS may be automated to an extent, through an interface known as ArcGIS Geoprocessing. But this covers only some cases, delving deeper provides much greater opportunities. ArcGIS is built on a COM object library named ArcObjects . Native ArcGIS files, such as an ArcSDE connection (.sde file) are the in memory COM object, serialised to disk as binary. It is difficult to edit or create such files in an automated fashion, without calling ArcObjects. So, like the Java code CreateSDECo...