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Hi I have a vb.net app and am trying to call a C program from it, perhaps a dll or executable. This is unmanaged code, just wondering if someone could provide a brief example? Thanks Paul.


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On 2004-01-26, Paul <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote:

Paul,



An executable can be run from VB's shell statement or you can use the

System.Diagnostics.Process class if you need more control. If your

trying to call exported functions, then you'll want to look into using

P/Invoke... If you have the C definitions for the functions, we would

be happy to help you translate some of them and give you pointers...



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Tom Shelton [MVP]

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* "=?Utf-8?B?UGF1bA==?=" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>scripsit:

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Imports System.Diagnostics

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Process.Start("C:\Foo.exe")

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Or, in VB.NET:



\\\

Shell("C:\Foo.exe")

///



For calling exported functions of a native DLL, have a look at the

'Declare' statement and/or the 'DllImportAttribute' class.



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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

<www.mvps.org/dotnet>">www.mvps.org/dotnet>

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thanks for the information. How would I call this simple c function from vb.net passing params to it and also receiving the return param.

vb.net want to pass in 3,4 and get the integer results

results = sum_a_and_b(3,4)



c function

int sum_a_and_b (int a, int b)

{

int c;

c = a + b;

return (c);

}

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thanks for the information. How would I call this simple c function from vb.net passing params to it and also receiving the return param.

vb.net want to pass in 3,4 and get the integer result

results = sum_a_and_b(3,4



c functio

int sum_a_and_b (int a, int b



int c

c = a + b

return (c)





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* "=?Utf-8?B?UGF1bA==?=" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>scripsit:

You will have to export the function as 'stdcall': '_declspec(dllexport)

<datatype>_stdcall'. You will get more info on this topic in the C++

group.



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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

<www.mvps.org/dotnet>">www.mvps.org/dotnet>

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