Powershell: Enable native interop with static extern class methods
It would be really neat if we could to native interop with classes.
class NativeMethods{
[DllImport("kernel32", SetLastError=$true)]
hidden static extern [bool] SetConsoleMode([IntPtr] $handle, [int] $mode)
}
How much work would it be to get this working?
powercode
All 2 comments
Maybe not a lot of work, but it is a common enough ask that we should do it.
There is one important language design choice to make, how to declare a struct. Pinvoke would be much less useful without structs.
A struct is probably not generally useful in PowerShell, we box way too often, so I was thinking of using an attribute like ExplicitLayout to imply struct instead of adding a keyword.
lzybkr
on 13 Dec 2016
Looks like we may be able to do this as soon as we're clear to move to .NET 3.0 - this already works on 3.0.0-preview2 release of the SDK https://github.com/IISResetMe/PowerShell/commit/4fa5363598e7736771e8cc1b06e8ce8edd405d4f (warrants a bit of a cleanup in PSType.cs, I'll keep working on that in the meantime)
IISResetMe
on 8 Mar 2019
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Looks like we may be able to do this as soon as we're clear to move to .NET 3.0 - this already works on 3.0.0-preview2 release of the SDK https://github.com/IISResetMe/PowerShell/commit/4fa5363598e7736771e8cc1b06e8ce8edd405d4f (warrants a bit of a cleanup in
PSType.cs, I'll keep working on that in the meantime)