win32 api calls

Question

Hey can you reccomend a good book or tutorial for a complete newb on the subject? I would like to call win32 api calls such as findwindowex and SendMessage etc. But I don't know anything about it and would like to do it in C# or vb .net(not vb6) thanks.

Bechir Bejaoui · Answer

The last link is very good

Alan · Answer

To supplement the article which Bechir found here are a couple more articles which are particularly good for developers who have no previous experience of calling Win32 functions from C#: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc164123.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163910.aspx Also the following is a great site for looking up the C# or VB.Net signatures of Win32 functions and (if you're lucky) finding examples of usage: http://www.pinvoke.net/

Bechir Bejaoui · Answer

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/02/18/cominterop.html