C# and standard C library

[hung_ngole]

I have a standard C library file : "abc.dll". Now I want to reuse it with C# (VS.NET 2005). How can I do this? Thanks, Hung. Hung

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

Search for "pinvoke"; you can use Platform Invocation Services (P/Invoke) to call native exported C methods.

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[russellsoft]

You must use InteropServices... using System.Runtime.InteropServices then DllImport attribute [DllImport("User32.dll")] public static extern int MessageBox(int h, string m, string c, int type); Then you are avaible to use MessageBox function all code will be locking such the following: using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class MainClass { [DllImport("User32.dll")] public static extern int MessageBox(int h, string m, string c, int type); static int Main() { string myString; Console.Write("Enter your message: "); myString = Console.ReadLine(); return MessageBox(0, myString, "My Message Box", 0); } }

[hung_ngole]

Thanks! But my "abc.dll" file is not registered in Windows, and I don't want to register it! Do you have other ideas? Hung

[Dominik Reichl]

Put it into the same directory where your .NET executable is. Best regards Dominik

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_outp(0x64, 0xAD); and __asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al do the same... but what do they do?? ;) (doesn't work on NT)

[hung_ngole]

Can you explain more details!! I tried to add reference to standard C .dll file but VS.NET does not allow me to do. Thanks, Hung