http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-14.html

I didn't finish Friday yet, so that will be next week, but here's all of Thursday's stuff! Also std.database update in there, lots of community announcements, and a bug list cleanup.

On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 17:12:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-14.html
>
> I didn't finish Friday yet, so that will be next week, but here's all of Thursday's stuff! Also std.database update in there, lots of community announcements, and a bug list cleanup.

Really very well done, and it must have been a fair amount of work.  It's a rare skill these days to be able to capture the meat of what was said and all the nuances.

Thanks a lot for this huge effort. Quality of write ups is beyond any expectations on my side - just reading it + looking at slides gives a very solid understanding of what was talked about.

On 16/06/15 01:12, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-14.html
>
> I didn't finish Friday yet, so that will be next week, but here's all of
> Thursday's stuff! Also std.database update in there, lots of community
> announcements, and a bug list cleanup.

Great writeup. Reading it I get to relive the conference :)

By the way, Lightning Talk #3 was me.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 05:30:13 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> On 16/06/15 01:12, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-14.html
>>
>> I didn't finish Friday yet, so that will be next week, but here's all of
>> Thursday's stuff! Also std.database update in there, lots of community
>> announcements, and a bug list cleanup.
>
> Great writeup. Reading it I get to relive the conference :)
>
> By the way, Lightning Talk #3 was me.

Hi Lionello.

I wondered whether you might have had any change in thoughts about releasing your COM code (I know it might not be your choice, but no harm in asking):
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jfmohh$1i81$1@digitalmars.com

This is the problem I am struggling with at the moment (related, but different):
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/rzfjgdtvadlsusongzzb@forum.dlang.org


Laeeth.

I've done some COM stuff too, even interacting with vb and jscript through the IDispatch which I think will work in Excel too.

I'm crazy busy the next few days, but here's the code:

https://github.com/adamdruppe/com

I have to remember just how to use it to guide through but maybe the examples in there will help.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 05:30:13 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> By the way, Lightning Talk #3 was me.

Awesome, thanks, I'll edit it in!

I think I'll do a special edition that brings all the dconf stuff together in a few weeks too. If you've already read it ongoing, there will be little new (hopefully video links though), but perhaps it will be something we can post to a wider audience.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 12:51:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I've done some COM stuff too, even interacting with vb and jscript through the IDispatch which I think will work in Excel too.
>
> I'm crazy busy the next few days, but here's the code:
>
> https://github.com/adamdruppe/com
>
> I have to remember just how to use it to guide through but maybe the examples in there will help.

Thanks very much for this, Adam.  Had somehow completely forgotten, although I had bookmarked it.

Laeeth.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 12:51:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I've done some COM stuff too, even interacting with vb and jscript through the IDispatch which I think will work in Excel too.
>
> I'm crazy busy the next few days, but here's the code:
>
> https://github.com/adamdruppe/com
>
> I have to remember just how to use it to guide through but maybe the examples in there will help.

Thanks for this.  The original windows api header port has disappeared from the original source, but I used Rikki Cattermole's fork.  Worked fine, except I had to change const for GUID in a couple of places.

Do you have any thoughts on automating the generation of IDL files?  If I understand correctly, I need these to be able to call a COM object from a dynamic language like VB.  Or did you just generate these by hand when you called from javascript ?


Laeeth

On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 06:01:35 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Do you have any thoughts on automating the generation of IDL files?

I didn't need them, the mixin IDispatchImpl bit (example here: https://github.com/adamdruppe/com/blob/master/example/chello.d ) gave enough that the dynamic languages could call it through that interface.

With IDispatch, they ask for functions by name string and pass the arguments, and it needs to forward. With the mixin, it uses reflection to generate those mappings and use it that way.