Uffe I'm ignorant of Delphi - having only an academic copy of Version 1.0 to play with!
What is library1.dpr? For the entire Delphi8 project for the .Net and Win32 versions of the DLLs you placed in your downloadable ZIP file, "how big", "how complex"? If it's so much simpler than using C++ to wrap the various Win32 APIs of use to MapBasic people, into callable DLLs, then we should employ you to write dozens of them! Or, buy Delphi version 2 (that works?) instead of upgrading MapInfo? Ian Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: Uffe Kousgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 24 September 2004 2:03 AM > To: Mapinfo-L > Subject: Re: MI-L .NET DLL in MapBasic > > Hi Eric, > > This Delphi capability is not found on the feature matrices. It is > probably not interesting to so many I guess and these matrices are > pretty big already. But the compiler architects has publicly said that > it is correct, that D8 can do this and it is a unique feature. > > You can download a working example from here with my comments: > www.routeware.dk/dot_net_dll.zip > > From a developer perspective it is very easy to use, but I can't say > what exactly goes on at the assembler / IL code level. But at least no > COM classes seems to be involved. > > > Kind regards > > Uffe Kousgaard > www.routeware.dk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Uffe Kousgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Mapinfo-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:38 PM > Subject: Re: MI-L .NET DLL in MapBasic > > > As I mentioned in a memo not too long ago, there are three standard ways > of > calling .NET code from native/Win32 code. > > So, as far as MapBasic is concerned, it must call a Win32 Native code > DLL > using the stdcall calling convention. Any language that will produce > that > kind of .DLL is usable from MapBasic. Note that in VS.NET, the only > language that builds native code is the C/C++ compiler. You cannot do > this > from C#, VB.NET or J# or anything else from Microsoft. > > Delphi has added their own language to the mix and it still as in the > past, produces Win32 Native code DLLs. Their newest version also > produces > .NET code (MSIL) like C#, VB.NET and C++ can. I saw nothing in the > Delphi > description (http://www.borland.com/delphi_net/pdf/delphi_net8_faq.pdf) > that would indicate that a Delphi DLL can now contain Win32 Native AND > MSIL > code. I could be wrong but I saw nothing that would claim that. It is > possible that they call COM from the Win32 code which can be wrapped > around > .NET. That may work but may be expensive. > > So, C++ is special in that you could create one DLL (what Microsoft > calls a > mixed DLL) that contains a stdcall DLL entry point callable from > MapBasic. > That same DLL can then contain MSIL code that calls a .NET assembly > directly. The code that is MSIL needs to be compiled with the /CLR > command > line switch. > > Uffe, am I wrong about the capabilities of Delphi? Are they doing the > same > kind of mixed code as C++? > > Eric Blasenheim > Software Architect > MapInfo Corporation > > > > Mail List: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: on 09/23/2004 08:53 AM ZE2 > > To: "Mapinfo-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: > > Subject: Re: MI-L .NET DLL in MapBasic > > > > > Delphi 8 (the .NET version) can as the only .NET development tool create > DLL's that can be accessed from mapbasic through the stdcall convension. > You can then call the C# assembly from the Delphi code. > > Generally these tools can be used for creating such DLL's: > Delphi 2-8, VC++ 6, C++ Builder, old VB? > > These can't: > VB6, C#, VS .NET (not sure) > > Kind regards > > Uffe Kousgaard > www.routeware.dk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jakob Lanstorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:40 AM > Subject: MI-L .NET DLL in MapBasic > > > If any one has a solution on how to wrap a .Net (C#) DLL for access > through the sdtcall convension in MapBasic, I would be very interested > to hear about it. > > /Jakob > > ________________________________ > > From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu 9/23/2004 01:39 > To: Gilbert, Antoine > Cc: MapInfo-L > Subject: RE: MI-L open http stream from mapbasic > > > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Gilbert, Antoine wrote: > > > Does it's possible to make callable from mapbasic DLL with visual > studio > > .net ? > > MapBasic can call only those DLLs made in the stdcall format (not the > kind > you could make with VB6.) 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