DLLimport

[farseer]

i am trying to include the following P/Invoke function in a class:
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
private static extern bool TerminateProcess(IntPtr hProcess,
uint ExitCode);

this is based on an MSDN article found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/ProcessManager.asp

the problem is when i try to compile, i get the error "The type or
namespace name 'DllImport' could not be found (are you missing a using
directive or an assembly reference?"

the project is a Pocket PC 2003 project.

any ideas how to successfully get this going?

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Are you missing the "using" directive?

using System.Runtime.Interop

Please, read the error messages. Most of them are informative, sometimes to
a fault

 

[farseer]

i don't believe a using is needed with DLLImports. the error indicates
it cannot find the specified dll, but i did find that dll on my system
at the following locations:

what i did to solve this was change my device from "Pocket PC 2003 SE
Emulator" to "Pocket PC 2003 Device"

 

[farseer]

i was wrong...though i thought for sure changing the taget device
worked....it is not working anymore.

so i am not sure why i can't compile. i see that the DLLs it is
referencing do exist on my system (one in System32, so should be in the
path). i am wondering if this needs to be set somewhere in the
emulator i am using and if so, how do i do this?

 

[Guest]

No, you *must* have a "using System.Runtime.InteropServices" at the top of
the code page. That's what the error is telling you.

-Chris

 

[farseer]

ah, thanks much.