winamp plugin

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vertigo

Hello

Is it possible to write winamp plugin in C# ?
Does anybody know sources written in C# and working ?

Thanx
Michal
 
Michal,

Winamp accesses its plugins by dynamically loading pre-defined functions
that are exported from a DLL. This isn't supported by C#. The only way you
could do your development in C# would be to create an unmanaged shim which
would forward the calls to managed code (which you would load from the
unmanaged shim).

Depending on the type of plugin that you want to write, managed code
might not be the best approach. It's not so much that managed code can't do
this kind of work, it's more the marshaling penalty you are going to have to
pay on each call to your plugin (and filters for audio content can't take up
too much time).

Hope this helps.
 

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