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Programmatically Generating an Interop Assembly

The same functionality that is provided with the tlbimp utility is exposed in the TypeLibConverter class. To use this class, load a type library description. Listing 8.5 shows the most straightforward method to load a type library. The full source to this sample is available in the TypeLibraryConversion directory.

Listing 8.5. Loading a Type Library

private enum RegKind { RegKind_Default = 0, RegKind_Register = 1, RegKind_None = 2 } [ DllImport( "oleaut32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, PreserveSig = false )] private static extern void LoadTypeLibEx(String strTypeLibName, RegKind regKind, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Interface)] out Object typeLib); [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { Object ...