How to declare external lib in C#?

[cloudx]

Hi there,

I would like to retrieve the computer name in C#, here is the piece of code
in VB:

Private Declare Function GetComputerNameAPI Lib "kernel32" Alias
"GetComputerNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

How do I translate to C#? thanks!

[Michael C]

[DllImport("kernel32", EntryPoint= "GetComputerNameA")]
private static extern int GetComputerName(StringBuilder lpBuffer, ref int
nSize);

"cloudx" <cl****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi there,

I would like to retrieve the computer name in C#, here is the piece of
code
in VB:

Private Declare Function GetComputerNameAPI Lib "kernel32" Alias
"GetComputerNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

How do I translate to C#? thanks!

[Alan Pretre]

"cloudx" <cl****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I would like to retrieve the computer name in C#

Hi. Use System.Environment.MachineName instead.

-- Alan

[Lebesgue]

I believe this is the one you wanted to use

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern bool GetComputerName(StringBuilder lpBuffer, ref uint
lpnSize);

http://www.pinvoke.net/ is a great source of WinAPI - C# related
information, check it out.

"cloudx" <cl****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi there,

I would like to retrieve the computer name in C#, here is the piece of code in VB:

Private Declare Function GetComputerNameAPI Lib "kernel32" Alias
"GetComputerNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

How do I translate to C#? thanks!

[Alan Pretre]

"cloudx" <cl****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How do I translate to C#?

In general, you can go to

http://pinvoke.net/

to find many Win32 declarations. They look a lot like VB6.
GetComputerName() is at

http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/kern...etComputerName

-- Alan