Got Visual Studio and the Interop.PCDLRN.dll... Now what?

As I upgraded one CMM to Windows 7 64-bit, my small VBS helpers died in the process (still kickin' butt on XP though).
So, I have begun re-coding them in Visual Studio 2010 (I think). I have gotten so far in the coding where I need to connect to PC-DMIS and start interfacing with it. Now, I managed to find the DLL that is supposed to expose some interfaces and methods and I have successfully added it to my project.

Then what? How do I use the DLL to connect to PC-DMIS and expose the PartPrograms collection for instance?

Oh, I am using C# for this...

Any and all input, examples or suggestions are VERY welcome!

TIA!

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ewe0006 over 10 years ago

This seems to work for me:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {

        static Type PCDLRN_Application = null;
        static dynamic PCDApp = null;
        static dynamic PCDParts = null;
        static dynamic PCDPart = null;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            try
            {
                PCDLRN_Application = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("PCDLRN.Application");
                PCDApp = System.Activator.CreateInstance(PCDLRN_Application);
                PCDApp.WaitUntilReady(60);
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
                PCDApp.OperatorMode = false;
                PCDApp.Visible = true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

To connect to an existing instance, you would need to use System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject instead of System.Activator.CreateInstance. I don't believe there is a simple way to do both from one call in C# (VB takes care of this in the background for you.)

You may find it easier to reference to use VB for your resource management calls:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {

        static Type PCDLRN_Application = null;
        static PCDLRN.Application PCDApp = null;
        static PCDLRN.PartPrograms PCDParts = null;
        static PCDLRN.PartProgram PCDPart = null;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            try
            {
                //PCDLRN_Application = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("PCDLRN.Application");
                PCDApp = (PCDLRN.Application)Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.CreateObject("PCDLRN.Application","");
                PCDApp.WaitUntilReady(60);
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
                PCDApp.OperatorMode = false;
                PCDApp.Visible = true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.ReadLine();
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

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ewe0006 over 10 years ago

This seems to work for me:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {

        static Type PCDLRN_Application = null;
        static dynamic PCDApp = null;
        static dynamic PCDParts = null;
        static dynamic PCDPart = null;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            try
            {
                PCDLRN_Application = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("PCDLRN.Application");
                PCDApp = System.Activator.CreateInstance(PCDLRN_Application);
                PCDApp.WaitUntilReady(60);
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
                PCDApp.OperatorMode = false;
                PCDApp.Visible = true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {

        static Type PCDLRN_Application = null;
        static PCDLRN.Application PCDApp = null;
        static PCDLRN.PartPrograms PCDParts = null;
        static PCDLRN.PartProgram PCDPart = null;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            try
            {
                //PCDLRN_Application = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("PCDLRN.Application");
                PCDApp = (PCDLRN.Application)Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.CreateObject("PCDLRN.Application","");
                PCDApp.WaitUntilReady(60);
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
                PCDApp.OperatorMode = false;
                PCDApp.Visible = true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.ReadLine();
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

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