How to declare external lib in C#?

[Guest]

Hi there,

I would like to retrieve the computer name in C#, here is the piece of code
in VB:

Private Declare Function GetComputerNameAPI Lib "kernel32" Alias
"GetComputerNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

How do I translate to C#? thanks!

 

[Alan Pretre]

I would like to retrieve the computer name in C#

Hi. Use System.Environment.MachineName instead.

-- Alan

 

[Lebesgue]

I believe this is the one you wanted to use

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern bool GetComputerName(StringBuilder lpBuffer, ref uint
lpnSize);

http://www.pinvoke.net/ is a great source of WinAPI - C# related
information, check it out.

 

[Michael C]

[DllImport("kernel32", EntryPoint= "GetComputerNameA")]
private static extern int GetComputerName(StringBuilder lpBuffer, ref int
nSize);

 

[Alan Pretre]

How do I translate to C#?

In general, you can go to

http://pinvoke.net/

to find many Win32 declarations. They look a lot like VB6.
GetComputerName() is at

http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/kernel32.GetComputerName

-- Alan