CsWin32
cppcomponents


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MIT License | gtkbook License |
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CsWin32
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WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker
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.
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A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C#
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...
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[OC] I made a program for Windows which lets you create sticky preview thumbnails
This was mostly a project for fun, to dive into CsWin32 - a PInvoke source generator as well to fiddle around with the DWM API.
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Change Secondary screen rotation using CMD
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.
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Audio routing using C#
My best guess would be to use CsWin32 to wrangle the audio sinks used by variious WASAPI sessions.
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Hello. Can someone please give me some fun and cool projects for powrshell? Thank you.
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.
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PInvoke.net: the interop wiki
Also worth mentioning is this C# source generator for generating P/Invoke methods for win32 APIs: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32
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WPF Roadmap 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).
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C# to C Struct
You could try this to auto-generate it.
- Any existing windows API wrappers?
cppcomponents
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COM+ Revisited
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
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COM or C++/CLI layer for long-term maintenance?
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.
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Satya Das - CIB - ABI stable architecture for a C++ SDK - Meeting C++ online
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?
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.

