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Thread: Accessing DLL's in VB Script

Venu Gopal Ragu
Posts: 11

Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 05 Jul 06 4:52 AM

Hi

How do we access DLL’s in VB script . this is the way we used to do in legacy

Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

Let me know if there is an alternative way

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 05 Jul 06 11:43 AM

VBScript cannot do declares. So, there is no way to reference static DLLs, Win32API, etc. Your easiest routes would be to:

1) Think of an alternative way to get the task done
2) Wrap the static DLL call in a COM exposed DLL (which means you must also distribute)
3) Add the code to a legacy script which you invoke from your VBScript plugin

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Jon Davis
Posts: 65

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 05 Jul 06 10:02 PM

Or, wait for v7 and use P/Invoke in a managed assembly.

This is how I will always wrap function pointers in the future.

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Thomas Pleasance
Posts: 12

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 06 Jul 06 9:26 AM

Are you just trying to get the current logged in user if so try this

Set wshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strUser = wshNetwork.Username
Msgbox "Current User: " & strUser

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Jeremy Brayton
Posts: 491

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 06 Jul 06 11:54 AM

What about making a customization that imports almost the entirety of P/Invoke? I'm thinking of something you don't have to change every time you need access to a new function. Of course the plugin would probably be huge, since you're importing practically the entire Win32 library (or at the very least, the portion that does NOT have a .NET counterpart).

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 06 Jul 06 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jeremy Brayton

What about making a customization that imports almost the entirety of P/Invoke? I'm thinking of something you don't have to change every time you need access to a new function. Of course the plugin would probably be huge, since you're importing practically the entire Win32 library (or at the very least, the portion that does NOT have a .NET counterpart).

If that is what you're after then DynaCall is a great solution for that. DynaCall is a COM DLL that allows you to dynamically call almost any std dll function/api.

http://people.freenet.de/gborn/WSHBazaar/WSHDynaCall.htm

You'd install the COM DLL once, and then could use it for any number of APIs. It is really a cool concept.

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Jon Davis
Posts: 65

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 06 Jul 06 6:40 PM

That's slick. Thanks for the link, Ryan.

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Jeremy Brayton
Posts: 491

Re: Accessing DLL's in VB Script Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 07 Jul 06 1:44 PM

My only beef is the date in which this was finished (pre-2000) so it could use an update but at least the source is available so it would be a great starting point. I'm thinking this would make a nice .NET extension and I think anything done in .NET gets a generous portion of the COM treatment so it wouldn't be too difficult to turn it into a COM object that earlier versions of SalesLogix could use as well (unless I'm completely off base in regards to .NET and COM).

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