[Mono-list] ActiveX dll with mono on windows

[Jonathan Chambers]

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Bartolomeo Nicolotti
<bnicolotti at siapcn.it>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Great! Do you mean that this compiles
>
> gmcs -r:Interop.cwbx.dll MyTest.cs
>
> using Com Interop?

This compiles like any normal managed application. Interop.cwbx.dll is just
a managed assembly. COM Interop tools were used to generate that assembly I
assume, and the runtime needs to support COM Interop in order for it to run
(which mono should, unless there is a bug).

>
>
> Interop.cwbx.dll is generated by VisualStudio.
>
> Do you think that using this Interop.cwbx.dll is fine or do you suggest
> to use a wrapper written in mono?
>
> IBM provides us also another dll that's an assembly, but the classes
> used are different, do you think that we can keep our code as is and use
> a wrapper to unmanaged code or we should modify our code to use managed
> assembly?

I would try your code as is first, although things being all managed would
help with portability (for other platforms if you care about them).

>
>
> Many thanks
>
> best regards
>
> Il giorno lun, 09/03/2009 alle 09.53 -0400, Jonathan Chambers ha
> scritto:
> > Hello,
> >      COM Interop in mono on windows should work the same as COM
> > Interop on .Net. The tools support is not there (mono has no
> > equivalent of tlbimp for example), but the runtime should be fine. If
> > not, file a bug.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Bartolomeo Nicolotti
> > <bnicolotti at siapcn.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         Da:     Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com>
> >         A:      Bartolomeo Nicolotti <bnicolotti at siapcn.it>
> >         Oggetto:        Re: [Mono-list] ActiveX dll with mono on
> >         windows
> >         Data:   Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:02:57 -0400 (13.02 CET)
> >
> >
> >         The activeX dll is a DLL containing com.
> >
> >
> >         This blog seems to indicate thats not as impossible as I
> >         thought:
> >
> >
> >
> http://jonathanchambers.blogspot.com/2007/02/three-com-interop-updates.html
> >
> >
> >         Do you have the source for he activex dll? What language is it
> >         written in?
> >         If its a VB6 dll, visual studio has a nice wizard to upgrade
> >         vb6 code to
> >         vb.net.
> >
> >
> >         No, I don't have the sources, it's an IBM.
> >
> >         Visual Studio produces an Interp.cwbx.dll that used with
> >
> >         gmcs -r:Interop.cwbx.dll MyTest.cs
> >
> >         compiles! I think that's a wrapper assembly for the ActiveX
> >         dll.
> >
> >         Bye
> >
> >
> >         Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote:
> >         >
> >         > Hi,
> >         >
> >         > I've sonme code written in C# with VisualStudio. I want to
> >         migrate to
> >         > mono. The problem is that this code uses a .dll that's an
> >         ActiveX and not
> >         > an assembly. Is there a way to use this dll in mono?
> >         >
> >         > Many thanks
> >         >
> >         > Best regards....
> >         >
> >
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Thanks,
Jonathan
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