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Hi,

Is is possible to use a .NET library with FWH? Or is it better to create a seperate EXE-file compiled with the .NET library, and transfer the data with a text-file.
A want to use a .NET library file that generate drawings. My program give the correct data to create it.

Thanks

Marc,

You may review FiveNet and the technique it uses to manage .NET from Harbour:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/fivenet/wikis/architecture.wiki

https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2/code.google.com/fivenet/source-archive.zip

I am migrating the project to bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/fivetech/fivenet

https://bitbucket.org/fivetech/fivenet/wiki/Home

Antonio,

When I press the link https://bitbucket.org/fivetech/fivenet/wiki/Home

I get

You do not have access to the wiki.
Use the links at the top to get back.

Marc,

Please try it again, it should be ok now

FiveNet source code is very simple: We create a .NET DLL that we register and we manage from a Harbour application.

When we need some .NET value from the Harbour app, then we use a C DLL that access the code from the EXE.

Antonio,

if I understand correctly, I need to create a .NET exe with my function to generate my drawings, and call a function from the harbour application.

Marc,

A .NET DLL, and then use the DLL from the Harbour app

In FiveNet makefile you can see how the DLL is created from a C sharp file:

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fivenet.dll : fivetech.cs
   c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc /out:samples\fivenet.dll /target:library source\cs\fivetech.cs
   c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm samples\fivenet.dll /tlb
 

Also, the DLL needs to be registered:

FiveNet\samples\register.bat

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c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm fivenet.dll /tlb
 

Marc,

From FiveNet/source/prg/fivenet.prg this init procedure creates an OLE (.NET) object:

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init procedure FiveNet

   local bError

   if oFiveNet == nil
      try
         oFiveNet = win_oleCreateObject( "FiveTech.FiveNet" )
      catch bError
         wapi_MessageBox( 0, "Can't create object 'FiveTech.FiveNet'",;
                          "Please use register.bat", MB_ICONEXCLAMATION )
      end
   endif

return

In other words:

Once the DLL is registered we can instantiate an OLE object to manage the DLL from the Harbour app

Antonio,

If I run go.bat, I get :

C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet>go

C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet>if not exist obj md obj

C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet>c:\_vmsdata\FWH\bcc55\bin\make -ffivenet.mak
MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland
c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc /out:samples\fivenet.dll /ta
rget:library source\cs\fivetech.cs
Microsoft (R) Visual C# 2008 Compiler versie 3.5.30729.5420
voor Microsoft (R) .NET Framework versie 3.5
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle rechten voorbehouden.

c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm samples\fivenet.dll
/tlb
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Assembly Registration Utility 2.0.50727.5483
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2004. Alle rechten voorbehouden.

Typen zijn geregistreerd
Assembly is geëxporteerd naar C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet\samples\fivenet.tlb en de
typebibliotheek is geregistreerd
C:\_vmsdata\FWH\bcc55\bin\bcc32 -c source\c\ftsnet.c
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
source\c\ftsnet.c:
C:\_vmsdata\FWH\bcc55\bin\ilink32 /Tpd C:\_vmsdata\FWH\bcc55\lib\c0d32.o
bj ftsnet.obj, samples\ftsnet.dll,,C:\_vmsdata\FWH\bcc55\lib\cw32.lib C:\_vmsdat
a\FWH\bcc55\import32.lib
Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland
Kan C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet\samples\ftsnet.obj niet vinden
Kan C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet\samples\ftsnet.tlb niet vinden

C:\_vmsdata\FWH\Fivenet>

So everything looks fine, except the 2 last lines. He can't find ftsnet.obj, and ftsnet.tlb.

Is that an error, or is this normal, because in the MAK-file, I see

ftsnet.dll : ftsnet.c
$(BCDIR)\bin\bcc32 -c source\c\ftsnet.c
$(BCDIR)\bin\ilink32 /Tpd $(BCDIR)\lib\c0d32.obj ftsnet.obj, samples\ftsnet.dll,,$(BCDIR)\lib\cw32.lib $(BCDIR)\import32.lib
@del samples\ftsnet.i*
@del samples\ftsnet.map
@del samples\ftsnet.obj
@del samples\ftsnet.tds
@del samples\ftsnet.tlb

Before i have tried it with an old version of xharbour and got an error.
Now I tested it with Harbour and BCC7, and it's working!!!

Thanks

very good

Antônio,

Do you know if is possible to integrate FWH with this https://www.signfiles.com/signature-library/ ?
Could you help us ?

Vilian,

Why don't you contact them for a C compatible DLL version ?

That may be much easier

Ok,

I will ask them.