15.3. Python plugins for .NET applications

The example we’ve just worked through has taken us through a good proportion of the IronPython hosting API. There are still some useful tricks we can learn, though. In particular we can solve the problem of how to communicate between dynamic languages and C#/VB.NET, which have to know the types of objects in order to be able to do anything useful with them.

The goal of this example is to create a .NET application that allows the user to write plugins that extend the functionality in Python. The application interface consists of a toolbar and a multiline textbox.