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dotnet / pinvoke

A library containing all P/Invoke code so you don't have to import it every time. Maintained and updated to support the latest Windows OS.
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How does this project and win32metadata interact #564

Closed MikeAtETI closed 3 years ago

MikeAtETI commented 3 years ago

Having read the blog at https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/20/making-win32-apis-more-accessible-to-more-languages/ - which links to a project which isn't public yet but seems to be "next generation" of this - are the output consistent (so we can just change nugets)?

AArnott commented 3 years ago

Great question. And ya, that blog post went live before we intended, thus the broken links. Thanks for letting us know so we can get that worked out.

The output is not the same. The C# projection is heavily inspired by this repo's patterns and lessons learned, but exact equivalence was not a goal. We anticipate most folks moving from consuming nuget packages produced by this repo to the C# projection over at https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32.

If any folks cannot do that, we'd like to learn why.

If interest in this project remains, we will likely migrate to a model where we are just a pre-built projection of the CsWin32 project.

AArnott commented 3 years ago

See also #565 for more on this.