Hence the reason I'm familiar with the reasons you should *not* P/Invoke it
Live and learn I guess.
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Chris Tacke, eMVP
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www.OpenNETCF.org
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Windows CE Product Manager
Applied Data Systems
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Chris,
Thanks...I never actually used GetLastError(), so you probably saved me from an error down the road! This was code that I used from a posting months ago when the forums were still IDSS forums (from someone with the user name ctacke, posting was referenced by Ginny (
http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=63), hmmm
. In any case, I'm glad to know the proper methodology.
Oh, and thanks for the help the other day on getting set up to contribute to the OpenNETCF effort...
Mark,
You shouldn't P/Invoke GetLastError as it may return an error set by the framework and not the actual API called. Instead use Marshal.GetLastWin32Error()
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Chris Tacke, eMVP
Advisory Board Member
www.OpenNETCF.org
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Windows CE Product Manager
Applied Data Systems
www.applieddata.net
#region StartProcess
/// <summary>
///
/// GetLastError -- Used to return last error
///
/// </summary>
[DllImport("CoreDll")]
public extern static Int32 GetLastError();
/// <summary>
///
/// CreateProcess -- Used to instantiate another program
///
/// </summary>
public class ProcessInfo
{
public IntPtr hProcess = IntPtr.Zero;
public IntPtr hThread = IntPtr.Zero;
public Int32 dwProcessId = 0;
public Int32 dwThreadId = 0;
};
[DllImport("CoreDll", SetLastError=true)]
private extern static int CreateProcess( String imageName
, String cmdLine
, IntPtr lpProcessAttributes
, IntPtr lpThreadAttributes
, Int32 boolInheritHandles
, Int32 dwCreationFlags
, IntPtr lpEnvironment
, IntPtr lpszCurrentDir
, IntPtr si
, ProcessInfo pi );
public static bool CreateProcess( String ExeName, String CmdLine)
{
ProcessInfo pi = new ProcessInfo();
return CreateProcess(ExeName
, CmdLine
, IntPtr.Zero
, IntPtr.Zero
, 0
, 0
, IntPtr.Zero
, IntPtr.Zero
, IntPtr.Zero
, pi) != 0;
}
#endregion
