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. (by dotnet)
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CsWin32
A source generator to add a user-defined set of Win32 P/Invoke methods and supporting types to a C# project. (by microsoft)
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| pinvoke | CsWin32 | |
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| 6 | 23 | |
| 1,995 | 1,582 | |
| - | 4.8% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pinvoke
Posts with mentions or reviews of pinvoke.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-07.
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Globally detecting mouse clicks.
Hooks are a low-level Win 32 API and are not directly exposed from the BCL, so you either need to write your own P/Invoke code (maybe using something like https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke)
- Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs
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Would you want/use an improved interface to native Win32 APIs for .NET?
To add to the pile of solutions for this: https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke
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Ask any question about ReSharper or Rider: Q&A session with JetBrains
I'm using the PInvoke libraries (cf. https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke/). And if my mouse hovers a split of a second over PInvoke.User32 or even worse PInvoke.Kernel32, VS will freeze for 2 minutes trying to render the very big summary of those classes.
- Starting app with GUI from windows service
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 2023-05-18.
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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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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.
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Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs
A quick Google Search netted the following project (https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32). Looks like my evening is gone.
- Should you use c# for memory manipulation
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Fixing my BF1942 woes with Win32 APIs
I tried out both TerraFX.Interop.Windows and CsWin32, ultimately settling on the latter. CsWin32 was a little less intimidating as the API is generated based on strings in a text file rather than containing everything at once. Also I like jumping to definition of types to read more and explore APIs etc and doing that to one of the types in the TerraFX library crashed Visual Studio. That's more of a VS problem than a TerraFX library but still - CsWin32 would work great for what I'm doing.
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How to interact with Win 11 API?
Pick your P/Invoke library of choice. For instance, CsWin32, or if you feel braver and want to go faster, TerraFX.Interop.Windows
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pinvoke and CsWin32 you can also consider the following projects:
ClangSharp - Clang bindings for .NET written in C#
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 Interop Assistant - PInvoke Interop Assistant
PythonNet - Python for .NET is a package that gives Python programmers nearly seamless integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provides a powerful application scripting tool for .NET developers.
CefSharp - .NET (WPF and Windows Forms) bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework
resharper-rider-plugin - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/sdk/
SRWE - Simple Runtime Window Editor
SimpleImpersonation - Simple Impersonation Library for .Net
CXXI - C++ interop framework
terrafx.interop.windows - Interop bindings for Windows.