Windows API .NET wrappers -- dotnet interop

dotnet interop : Windows API .NET wrappers

Mitja Semolic
5/27/2005 12:00:00 AM

I always come down, to writing wrappers in managed code,
to access Windows API dlls, why there are not simply included
in the .NET framework, or any tool that would build you a wrapper
from a dll?

Rewriting data and methods definitions is a waste of time,
done by all most every programmer using .NET, is there no simpler way?

Mitja Semolic

Mattias Sjögren
5/27/2005 12:00:00 AM

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Standard (non COM) DLLs don't contain enough information about its
exported functions to make it possible to write such a tool.

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Visit http://www.pinvoke.net

Mattias

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Philip Nelson
5/27/2005 9:35:05 AM

I would argue that the goal is to replace the need for underlying windows
api calls with managed code. Truthfully, I've been writing .net code since
2000 and have less than 100 lines of api calls in my hundreds of thousands
of lines of code. The ones I have were written to access gnu ghostscript ;-)

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Jared Parsons [MSFT]
5/27/2005 11:12:52 AM

IMHO, the best way to do this type of operation is with MC++ or CLI\C++.
Since Whidbey Beta1, all of my wrappers at home are written in CLI\C++. For
me I can code them faster and more efficiently than I can in C#.

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Mitja Semolic
5/28/2005 12:00:00 AM

http://www.pinvoke.net

Yes, that was I looking for!

Thanks

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