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Andrea - 18 Sep 2003 14:20 GMT
hello everybody,
I have to invoke a function defined in a c dll (unmanagerd dll) from a c#
program, but I
don't know the dll name at compile time.
How do I declare and invoke this function using LoadLibrary and
GetProcAddress (GetProcAddress  returns a function pointer!) ?

Any idea ? Any code example ?
Thanks

Andrea
Mattias Sj?gren - 18 Sep 2003 23:00 GMT
Andrea,

>Any idea ? Any code example ?

Have a look at
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_dynpinvoke.asp

Mattias

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Conrad Zhang - 19 Sep 2003 06:34 GMT
You can write an MC++ module, which does a LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress
then function call.

Example:
You need to use API MyApi in unknown dll. Say MyApi is defined as

int MyApi(int input).

You will define an API called
int MyApiShim(LPWSTR dllname, int input).

It does a LoadLibrary(dllname), GetProcAddress(handle, MyApi), then call
MyApi.

In your main app, you define a DllImport of MyApiShim on your MC++ module.

> Andrea,
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> Mattias

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