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Old style VB Declare statements

OK, I know about PInvoke and I know about "Auto", but here's what I do
not know for sure.

Are old style VB signatures for Win32 API (with the changes in the
data-types, of course) still workable (directly portable) to VB.NET?

Jun 27 '06 #1
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"Water Cooler v2" <wt*****@yahoo.com> schrieb:
OK, I know about PInvoke and I know about "Auto", but here's what I do
not know for sure.

Are old style VB signatures for Win32 API (with the changes in the
data-types, of course) still workable (directly portable) to VB.NET?

Yes and no. .NET provides some more specific types such as 'IntPtr' and
marshalling attributes. Thus it's often preferrable to re-check the
declarations with the C function prototypes.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Jun 27 '06 #2
Water Cooler,

May I change the question, why would they not doing it (talking about a
Win32 operating system of course)

Cor

"Water Cooler v2" <wt*****@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
news:11**********************@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
OK, I know about PInvoke and I know about "Auto", but here's what I do
not know for sure.

Are old style VB signatures for Win32 API (with the changes in the
data-types, of course) still workable (directly portable) to VB.NET?

Jun 27 '06 #3
> Are old style VB signatures for Win32 API (with the changes in the
data-types, of course) still workable (directly portable) to VB.NET?


Yes, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4zey12w5.aspx

--
Peter Macej
Helixoft - http://www.vbdocman.com
VBdocman - Automatic generator of technical documentation for VB, VB
..NET and ASP .NET code
Jun 27 '06 #4

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