Visual Haskell

[Simon Marlow]

Dmitri Pissarenko wrote:

> First of all I want to thank all the people, who developed Visual 
> Haskell. It's a big step towards functional programming in real life.

> 
> I have an application in C# in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Haskell, 
> which seems to work only in Visual Studio 2003 (both Visual Studios are 
> installed on my computer).
> 
> Now, is it possible to write parts of the C# application in Visual Haskell?
> 
> If yes, is there any downloadable tutorial about how one can use Visual 
> Haskell in collaboration with other Microsoft languages?

I'm by no means an expert on this, but I believe it's certainly 
*possible* to invoke Haskell from C#.  It might not be very easy, though.

The basic mechanism is that you expose the Haskell functionality via the 
FFI (foreign export), and then invoke this from your C# code as you 
would invoke C code.

In order to do this, you probably want to put the Haskell code into a 
DLL.  There's some new documentation on the wiki you should find useful:

   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Using_the_FFI

Note that while loading the Haskell DLL should work fine, there are 
currently problems with unloading, especially repeatedly loading and 
unloading Haskell DLLs.

Cheers,
	Simon