pinvoke vs rd

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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rd

Reactive Distributed communication framework for .NET, Kotlin, C++. Inspired by Rider IDE. (by JetBrains)

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pinvoke		rd
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6	Mentions	2
1,995	Stars	373
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	9.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

Win API programming C# Books?
1 project | /r/csharp | 10 Oct 2022
Globally detecting mouse clicks.
3 projects | /r/csharp | 7 Sep 2022

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)
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3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2022
Would you want/use an improved interface to native Win32 APIs for .NET?
4 projects | /r/dotnet | 24 Nov 2021

To add to the pile of solutions for this: https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke
Ask any question about ReSharper or Rider: Q&A session with JetBrains
8 projects | /r/dotnet | 19 Jan 2021

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
2 projects | /r/csharp | 8 Jan 2021

rd

Posts with mentions or reviews of rd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-19.

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2 projects | /r/rust | 19 Sep 2022

JetBrains certainly is not stranger to the idea: Rider is Resharper’s process talking to IDEA’s UI over rd protocol (https://github.com/JetBrains/rd), Fleet is protocol agnostics and supports different servers.
Ask any question about ReSharper or Rider: Q&A session with JetBrains
8 projects | /r/dotnet | 19 Jan 2021

If I understood it right, ReSharper/Rider is based on an MVVMish architecture using this protocol between a „backend“ (C# language services) and the „frontend“ (IntelliJ-based IDE, VS).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pinvoke and rd 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.

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

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

fslang-design - RFCs and docs related to the F# language design process, see https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions to submit ideas

PInvoke Interop Assistant - PInvoke Interop Assistant

resharper-rider-plugin - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/sdk/

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

CsWin32 - A source generator to add a user-defined set of Win32 P/Invoke methods and supporting types to a C# project.

SimpleImpersonation - Simple Impersonation Library for .Net

CXXI - C++ interop framework