calling unmanaged c++

[Jacob Gladish]

Can someone provide a small snippet of how to call unmanaged c++ from within
a c# application. The code is in a .lib file, and not in a .dll. Can you
include headers in c# !!???

[Mattias Sjögren]

Jacob,

The code is in a .lib file, and not in a .dll.
In that case you must first link it into a DLL to be able to use it
from C#.

Can you include headers in c# !!???

No

Mattias

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[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You cannot link a lib directly with a C# program.

Write a c++ wrapper for the lib and access it using pInvoke.

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"Jacob Gladish" <ja**********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Can someone provide a small snippet of how to call unmanaged c++ from within a c# application. The code is in a .lib file, and not in a .dll. Can you
include headers in c# !!???

[chrisben]

Even for a dll file, if not a COM, can we use it in C#? If we could,
is there any sample project which show the way to do it? Thanks

Mattias Sjögren <ma********************@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<O$**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...

Jacob,

The code is in a .lib file, and not in a .dll.

In that case you must first link it into a DLL to be able to use it
from C#.

Can you include headers in c# !!???

No

Mattias

[James Black]

chrisben wrote:

Even for a dll file, if not a COM, can we use it in C#? If we could,
is there any sample project which show the way to do it? Thanks

I have a managed C++ class that calls AdjustTokenPrivileges, from the
MS Win32 call list.
I just use (my namespace is ACLabLoginUtil)
using ACLabLoginUtil

and that allows my C# program to use the C++ functions.

I had to include the file in my project though, as a reference, but
that was it.

[Richard Grimes [MVP]]

chrisben wrote:

Even for a dll file, if not a COM, can we use it in C#? If we could,
yes
is there any sample project which show the way to do it? Thanks

even better, here's a tutorial:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...keTutorial.asp

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[chris ben]

thanks for the help

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