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PSKoans
A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.
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Dependencies
A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.
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dotnet
This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.
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pinvoke
Discontinued 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.
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Vanara
A set of .NET libraries for Windows implementing PInvoke calls to many native Windows APIs with supporting wrappers.
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eve-o-preview
An EVE client window switcher tool created to aid playing with multiple clients in CCP game EVE Online (by EveOPlus)
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cppcomponents
Allows you to write binary components in C++11 that can be used across different compilers and standard libraries
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Hence, a higher number means a better CsWin32 alternative or higher similarity.
CsWin32 discussion
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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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.
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microsoft/CsWin32 is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
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