API Viewer ?

[Arsalan]

In VB 6.0 there used to be API viewer or something from which one could
copy/paste API declarations into VB6.0 forms/module/class

What is the equivalent option for the VB.NET, if i want to use API functions
what should i do ?

 

[Arne Janning]

Hi Arsalan!

In VB 6.0 there used to be API viewer or something from which one could
copy/paste API declarations into VB6.0 forms/module/class

What is the equivalent option for the VB.NET, if i want to use API functions
what should i do ?

Have a look at these two sites:

http://www.activevb.de/rubriken/apiviewer/index-apiviewereng.html
http://www.pinvoke.net

Cheers

Arne Janning

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

In VB 6.0 there used to be API viewer or something from which one could
copy/paste API declarations into VB6.0 forms/module/class

What is the equivalent option for the VB.NET, if i want to use API
functions what should i do ?

My ActiveVB-coworker Christoph von Wittch provides an API viewer that can
export declares/... for
VB.NET:

ApiViewer
<URL:http://www.apiviewer.de/>

English translation:

ApiViewer (en)
<URL:http://www.activevb.de/rubriken/apiviewer/index-apiviewereng.html>

Ken Tucker [MVP] wrote an add-in for VS.NET 2003:

VB API Viewer 2003
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/...mpleGuid=673d6b40-3b9b-46a7-a958-a25f4e87568a>

pinvoke.net is a web-based collaborative wiki that collects declares/... for
different .NET programming languages:

pinvoke.net: the interop wiki!
<URL:http://www.pinvoke.net/>

If you don't want to struggle with the declares yourself, you can use this
library:

A Win32 Library for .NET
<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/win32.asp>

 

[Samuel R. Neff]

I've tried API Viewer but it crashed repeatedly and seemed to be
missing basic declarations that have been around since Win95--ListView
related structs like HDITEM.

Others haven't had the same problems?

Sam

 

[Greg Burns]

Not my ball of wax, but just saw a link for something called PINVOKE.NET
Add-In for VS here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/

http://weblogs.asp.net/johnrdurant/archive/2004/12/17/323570.aspx

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/...mpleGuid=75122f62-5459-4364-b9ba-7b5e6a4754fe

Not sure if it is what you need.

Greg