CsWin32 VS cppcomponents

Compare CsWin32 vs cppcomponents and see what are their differences.

CsWin32

A source generator to add a user-defined set of Win32 P/Invoke methods and supporting types to a C# project. (by microsoft)

cppcomponents

Allows you to write binary components in C++11 that can be used across different compilers and standard libraries (by jbandela)
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CsWin32 cppcomponents
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CsWin32

Posts with mentions or reviews of CsWin32. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-23.
  • WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2024
    If you do have headers, you don't have to write the bindings by hand: https://github.com/dotnet/ClangSharp?tab=readme-ov-file#gene...

    Also because this is Windows, there is https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32 already (and adjacent libraries) which rely on the same generator.

  • A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C#
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2024
    I feel that nowadays Rust is the language to go when you are doing system programming, but C# is not a bad choice either. With .NET 9 being released in a few weeks we will get NativeAOT (compilation to a native single binary) for x86 (x64 and ARM64 are already available). At work, I'm writing patches for legacy apps and needed to use C++ for most of my tasks. Nowadays, I'm doing more and more stuff in C# and enjoying it. For WinAPI there is a fantastic cswin32 [1] project that generates FFIs signatures on the fly. And it's fairly simple to extend it for other Windows libraries (I did it for detours [2], for example). And using pointers or working with native memory blocks is straightforward and intuitive for people with C/C++ background.

    [1] https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32

    [2] https://lowleveldesign.wordpress.com/2024/07/11/implementing...

  • [OC] I made a program for Windows which lets you create sticky preview thumbnails
    4 projects | /r/programming | 18 May 2023
    This was mostly a project for fun, to dive into CsWin32 - a PInvoke source generator as well to fiddle around with the DWM API.
  • Change Secondary screen rotation using CMD
    2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 25 Mar 2023
    If you haven't seen the CsWin32 project, you can use it to generate all your bindings as well. It generates the raw extern bindings, and then friendly wrappers for C# (where possible) that also work really well with PowerShell.
  • Audio routing using C#
    1 project | /r/csharp | 22 Mar 2023
    My best guess would be to use CsWin32 to wrangle the audio sinks used by variious WASAPI sessions.
  • Hello. Can someone please give me some fun and cool projects for powrshell? Thank you.
    2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 17 Mar 2023
    If you're looking for something different, try out writing windows programs using Win32 via CsWin32. You can generate a DLL that you Add-Type into PowerShell that lets you access all of Win32.
  • PInvoke.net: the interop wiki
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 11 Mar 2023
    Also worth mentioning is this C# source generator for generating P/Invoke methods for win32 APIs: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32
  • WPF Roadmap 2023
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 21 Feb 2023
    Idk what all the hubub is about FolderBrowserDialog, it's pretty easy to make the Win32 calls (you can even code generate the interop calls).
  • C# to C Struct
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 27 Nov 2022
    You could try this to auto-generate it.
  • Any existing windows API wrappers?
    1 project | /r/csharp | 15 Oct 2022

cppcomponents

Posts with mentions or reviews of cppcomponents. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-30.
  • COM+ Revisited
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2022
    A few years back, I wanted to see what you could do if you really used modern C++ with the COM principles. This is what I came up with:

    https://github.com/jbandela/cppcomponents

    * There is no code generation or IDL files

    * Components implement IUnknown

    * You can have Constructors and static functions for C++ classes.

    * You can take std::vector, std::string, std::tuple as parameters and return them (even if you are using different compilers and standard libraries)

    * Cross-platform

  • COM or C++/CLI layer for long-term maintenance?
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 30 May 2021
    You may find https://github.com/jbandela/cppcomponents useful. A portable C++11 library allowing COM components to be created from a C++ library. Note the portable, you can 100% make COM components on POSIX as well.
  • Satya Das - CIB - ABI stable architecture for a C++ SDK - Meeting C++ online
    1 project | /r/cpp | 6 Apr 2021
    jbandela/cppcomponents: Allows you to write binary components in C++11 that can be used across different compilers and standard libraries (github.com)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CsWin32 and cppcomponents you can also consider the following projects:

Vanara - A set of .NET libraries for Windows implementing PInvoke calls to many native Windows APIs with supporting wrappers.

CppSharp - Tools and libraries to glue C/C++ APIs to high-level languages

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.

ComLightInterop - Cross-platform COM interop library for .NET Core 2.1 or newer

ClangSharp - Clang bindings for .NET written in C#

cheat-engine - Cheat Engine. A development environment focused on modding

terrafx.interop.windows - Interop bindings for Windows.

bluerain - BlueRain is a fully-featured, managed memory manipulation library written in C#

wireguard-tools - Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools

SRWE - Simple Runtime Window Editor

FrostMemory - Basic RPM/WPM Library I wrote.

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