First steps with IronJS 0.2

With the release of IronJS 0.2, the code below is the result of a 30-minute play I had this morning, which shows how easy it is to embed a fully .NET JavaScript runtime in your application by simply referencing IronJS.dll.

It’s changed quite a from prior versions and I think you’ll see it has become much easier to host since  Dan Newcombe’s experiments last year.

//reference IronJS.dll
using System;
using System.IO;

class IronJsDoodles
{
    static void Simple()
    {
        var context = new IronJS.Hosting.CSharp.Context();
        object result = context.Execute("1 + 2;");

        Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1})", result, result.GetType());
        // "3 (System.Double)"
    }

    static void InteractingWithGlobal()
    {
        var context = new IronJS.Hosting.CSharp.Context();

        context.SetGlobal("a", 1d);
        context.SetGlobal("b", 2d);
        context.Execute("foo = a + b;");

        double foo = context.GetGlobalAs<double>("foo");

        Console.WriteLine(foo);
        // "3"
    }

    static void AddingHostFunctions()
    {
        var context = new IronJS.Hosting.CSharp.Context();

        // Effectively the same as context.CreatePrintFunction() 🙂
        var print = IronJS.Native.Utils.createHostFunction<Action<string>>(context.Environment,
            delegate(string str)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(str);
            });
        context.SetGlobal("print", print);

        context.Execute("print('Hello IronJS!')");
    }
}

Hope it helps you get started.