Re: MI-L .NET DLL in MapBasic

[David Langley]

VS.NET Professional comes with a Win32 C++ compiler so you could quite 
easily create a thin Win32 wrapper DLL with the '_stdcall calling 
convention' that consumes your .NET assembly. Under the VS.NET C++ project 
types (from the File->New->Project menu) you need to select either a 'MFC 
DLL' ( if you are going to use some of the MFC classes) or the 'Win32 
project' option (if you are going to use the Windows API directly).

You would then need to use either the tlbexp to generate a type library from 
the metadata in a library assembly or the regasm tool that will register a 
library assembly as if it is a COM server (regasm can also be used to create 
a type library). Once you have registered the DLL you can use normal COM 
techniques (from your Win32 VC++ code) to access the object and .NET will 
create a special wrapper COM object to make the .NET object look like a COM 
object.

Hope this gets you started.
Cheers,
Dave
David P. Langley
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