[Mono-list] ActiveX dll with mono on windows

[Bartolomeo Nicolotti]

Hi,

sorry, but I would like to understand more precisely:

I've taken the file

Interop.cwbx.dll

from the visual studio Project folder, I've searched and it'is only there on
my pc.

i've compiled with

        gmcs -r:Interop.cwbx.dll MyTest.cs

and it works. Do you mean that without mono support COM Interop this
wouldn't have compiled?

Without the tools support and without visual studio this Interop.cwbx.dll
can be written by hand, right?

Many thanks

Best regards


Da: 	Jonathan Chambers <joncham at gmail.com>
A: 	Bartolomeo Nicolotti <bnicolotti at siapcn.it>
CC: 	mono-list at lists.ximian.com
Oggetto: 	Re: [Mono-list] ActiveX dll with mono on windows
Data: 	Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:53:14 -0400 (14.53 CET)


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



Da: 	Jonathan Chambers <joncham at gmail.com>
A: 	Bartolomeo Nicolotti <bnicolotti at siapcn.it>
CC: 	mono-list at lists.ximian.com
Oggetto: 	Re: [Mono-list] ActiveX dll with mono on windows
Data: 	Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:32:31 -0400 (15.32 CET)


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



Bartolomeo Nicolotti 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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