Forums Scripts & Popups Help creating .net dlls

I created a really quick dll in .net to go into the registry and grab a binary key value and convert it into usable data.

(It basically got the current DU-Meter stats)

This was my first attempt at creating a Mirc compatible dll, and I quickly realized it was malformed.

I scoured the net for a bit in hopes to find an example of a .net dll compatible with mirc, and I haven’t been able to find one yet.

Currently Mirc maintains it’s “$dll: no such routine ‘test’” no matter what I’ve tried.

To my understanding the functions within the dll have to be of the form:


granted this form isn't exactly native to .net, I took some liberties with it and came up with the following:



I wasn’t able to determine what data type HWND was in, but from what I gather it’s an IntPtr.
Because of the way .net handles pointers, I first tried to pass in the data and param variables by reference, but had no luck. I then tried to handle them as normal pointers, but the compiler wouldn’t let me touch them directly as they were “unsafe” so I had to flag the entire method as unsafe, and force the compiler to compile unsafe segments with the /unsafe compiler argument.
I converted the BOOL’s to bool’s as necessary.

Now at this point the function still wasn’t accessible, so I am wondering if I am completely off on the wrong tangent.

Has anybody successfully created a .net dll compatible with mirc? Or is there any help available?

Thanks very much for your time.

-pingh

goto mircscripts.net and goto their dll section most of their dlls come w/ source code

note i didnt read whole post ;/ just scanned it kinda

I tried the site listed in your post in hopes to find one that was created in .net, but I haven't been able to find any. I posted on their forums as well.

The issue I am dealing with is trying to code a .net dll that's compatible with mirc.

I suppose I could recode the dll in C++ but that's just added work that's really not worth the effort.

I'm sorry that I'm unable to help, but you may find this thread useful.

If you want to contact the poster, see his user details.

That example basically shows someone creating a C++ DLL that references the .net api.

It's an interesting read, but wasn't really what I was trying to do.

I was hoping to create the dll in C#, and have it directly accessible from mirc.

I guess there are several things I can do, create a buffer dll written in C++ that then makes calls to the .net dll.

Granted I could just rewrite the thing in C++. I just find it odd that nobody has really written a .net dll for mirc yet.

Actually theres no way to do it in standard C# class librarys you have to do it from $com instead of $dll which requires the dll to be registered the the GAC if you would like i could show an example and give some tips on doing this just drop me a pm or hit me up on IRC irc.us.gamesurge.net #script
ive built many dlls that worked this way just 1 problem though the /comclose method in mIRC doesnt fully work on them for development it holds the object in memory and wont let you replace with a new version till mirc is restarted.