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Comment on Creating a Managed Wrapper for a Lib File by Evgeni Krustev

Evgeni Krustev — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:51:37 +0000

I really, really want to thank you, Tom Shelton! From probably a week I’m trying to do exactly the same and this is the first tutorial that is so detailed and helpful! Thanks again!!!

Comment on Creating a Managed Wrapper for a Lib File by Sahar

Sahar — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:06:38 +0000

Hi, I have a .lib file and its corresponding .h file ( from a third party developer and I don’t have the source code). I want to use them in c# application. I tried the method you talked about in this page. If I create a lib file as you said in this article, everything works fine and I can work with the class and methods inside the library. but when I replace my library with the main library that I want to work with, I get this error:
“Error 1 error C2059: syntax error : ‘__declspec(dllimport)’ “. I don’t know anything about c++ and don’t have access to any one who knows it now.

Comment on Creating a Simple Hotkey Component using RegisterHotKey by Onur

Onur — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:33:40 +0000

Hi Tom, when i try to open HotKeyUsage project with VB 2005 Express, i get an error:

“Unable to read the project file ‘VisualBasicExample.vbproj’.

C:\Users\\Desktop\HotkeyUsage\VisualBasicExample\VisualBasicExample.vbproj(118,11): The imported project “C:\Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets” was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.”

The reference Microsoft.VisualBasic.targets is required? It has a problem in solution.

Comment on Creating a Simple Hotkey Component using RegisterHotKey by Onur

Onur — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:32:21 +0000

Hi Tom, when i try to open the project with VB 2005 Express i get an error:

“Unable to read the project file ‘VisualBasicExample.vbproj’.

Comment on Calling Managed Code from a DLL Created in Visual C++ 2008 by mk

mk — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:28:19 +0000

Tom – thanks for this great article.

I managed to make c++ wrapper for VB.NET. However I cannot use it in Excel VBA.
I get an exception File not found related to the VB.NET dll file. However, I’m sure this dll is in current directory, the same where c++ dll is. I also set current directory in
Workbook_Open() event. I watched current directory in c++ dll and it is the one containing VB.NET dll.
Any ideas?

Best regards

Comment on Creating a Simple Hotkey Component using RegisterHotKey by Tom Shelton

Tom Shelton — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:24:05 +0000

Onur – not sure if I know the answer to that or not. It maybe possible – since the RegisterHotKey function does take a virtual key code…. But, I don’t have a setup where I can really test that. I have no joystick Feel free to take the source code and experiment with that. And, if you feel inclined post back and let me know how that worked.

Comment on Creating a Simple Hotkey Component using RegisterHotKey by Onur

Onur — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:02:05 +0000

Hi Tom,

I know how to check joystick button’s pressed status without directx, but winmm.dll. I wonder whether it is possible to hook a joystick button (a joystick virtual key registration?).

I just want to get some code to run when one of joystick button is pressed WHILE application is inactive. Is it possible to register a joystick button as virtual key?

Thanks!

Comment on Using C# and WMI to Create and Configure IIS6 Web Sites by Tom Shelton

Tom Shelton — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:30:42 +0000

Sorry – I have been really busy and haven’t been keeping up with the blog so much lately. I believe all of these are in the complete code. I will try and attach a zip of the actual code in the next couple of days.

Comment on Creating a Simple Hotkey Component using RegisterHotKey by Tom Shelton

Tom Shelton — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:28:28 +0000

Sorry Darryl, I haven’t ever tried to deal with the media keys. I’m not sure if RegisterHotKey does either If I get sometime, I will try and investigate that though.

Comment on Creating a Simple Hotkey Component using RegisterHotKey by Darryl

Darryl — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:41:30 +0000

This is great, just what I was looking for, but I doesn’t seem to respond to media keys. Any suggestions?

thanks
-Darryl