DLL Import Programatically ?

[wackyphill]

I know how to use [DLLImport] when I know the path the DLL I'll be
importing. But I have the following scenario:

I have a series of DLL plugins that all have the exact same function
signatures just different implementations of them.

I'd like to programatically search a directory for them and import them
some how. Even though I know there signatures at compile time I won't
know the DLL file names till run time.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks very much.

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

You can do this in .NET 2.0. What you would do is create a delegate
with the appropriate signature. Once you have that, you would call
LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress (through the P/Invoke layer) to get the
address of the function.

Finally, you would call the static GetDelegateForF unctionPointer method
on the Marshal class to get a delegate that represents the function in the
unmanaged dll you loaded.

Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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I know how to use [DLLImport] when I know the path the DLL I'll be
importing. But I have the following scenario:

I have a series of DLL plugins that all have the exact same function
signatures just different implementations of them.

I'd like to programatically search a directory for them and import them
some how. Even though I know there signatures at compile time I won't
know the DLL file names till run time.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks very much.

[wackyphill]

Nice, I'll look into that. Thanks very much for the info nick, I
appreciate it.

[wackyphill]

Tried your suggestion Nick and it works awesome. Thanks so much.