Working with Dynamic Languages/Objects
Most .NET development is about working with strongly typed objects where the compiler knows in advance the properties and methods that a given class exposes. However, there are objects (and languages) out there that do not have a static structure against which you can program. Instead, they are designed to get their information at runtime based on data inside an HTML form, a text file, XML, a database, or something similar. These objects and languages are said to be dynamic in that they get their structure only at runtime. Dynamic support was added to .NET for the purpose of simplifying the access to dynamic application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by languages such as IronPython and IronRuby or ...
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