Ignacio,
because for my purpose calling "any" COM method suffices. Even just one
method. I don't have much time on my hands right now so I'll just go for the
simplest possible example that demonstrates the concept.
I had this idea that it would be cool to have such an app (open source) as I
have an interest in languages. /* and here I admit it is a secondary
objective to the tech demo, but don't you always get inspired when thinking
about a good, creative example for your audience? */
Programming books either always use the canonical, university-style examples
(Fibonacci, Hanoi Towers, etc.) or have some personality (like creation of
an ElectricGuitar class deriving from Guitar, implementing IBendSound, etc.)
I thought to give my speech a special touch, that's all.
Later, I would have enjoyed building on the class (open source) adding
perhaps the sockets functionality for network gaming.
Hopefully somebody with a little bit more spare time will think this is cool
too.
I already got a reply from somebody who did a similar thing using
screen-scraping off their website.(I don't know how legal that is ;-)
I guess this risks ending up off-topic so if anybody is interested in a
"co-operation" on such a program then e-mail me.
If you are learning languages and would like to build your vocabulary, I
guess this could be of interest to you too.
For my interop demo, I think that "hello, world!\n" from DCOM will do.
Ciao,
Marco
"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us> wrote
in message news:ew**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Hi,
Sorry for asking this, but if you are going to give a seminar is cause
you know the subject, if so why don't you write the program yourself?
cheers,
--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation
"Marco Ippolito" <ma************@intel.com> wrote in message
news:ci**********@news01.intel.com... Hi,
I am giving a seminar on C# interop and I would like to feature an original sample class to stimulate some interest.
Does anybody want to write an open-source ConsoleApp || WinApp that,
given a starting English word, calls Babylon for translations in N languages and
plays a game with the user assigning one point for every
language/translation pair entered? (I am a licenced user for 2004 :-)
Example:
word: Table
User enters: de Tisch, es mesa, pt mesa, it tavolo, ...
I would obviously give credit to the author and handle everything
open-source!
Other interop tasks could be "linking to MS Word and assigning a point
for every synonym for the base language" or allowing multiple networked
players to challenge each other or play in teams (20 seconds for every English
word, 1 point per answer, etc.)
Just a thought...
I will resort to the traditional DCOM Hello World, Fibonacci series or
something as boring as that otherwise. :-) I just can't spare the time
to look into this right now.
Regards,
Marco
