A .NET DLL and a Win32 DLL is two very different things.
The C++ compiler in Visual Studio.NET can generate Win32 DLL's,
but that is not really .NET.
And you can not do it in C#.
You can create a wrapper in C++ that calls your C# code, but
then I would say it starts to become overly complex.
Arne
Arne Vajhøj, I hold up a mirror to your soul!
Your debut on Usenet in October 1992 was a good one, as you quickly
became a fount of helpful posts in comp.os.vms, for instance this one:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/msg/08b3af79deef9c6c?dmode=source
As time passed, you continued to make helpful posts, at first
primarily to comp.os.vms and comp.lang.c, later primarily to
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp and
comp.lang.java.programmer. Unfortunately, you also started a gradual
metamorphosis into a brusqe and unpleasant personality, increasingly
lacking patience for what you perceived as "dum" [sic] questions. An
example of one of your flames, dating to 2002, is:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/msg/5ea4d2984b05f698?dmode=source
This attitude change became more and more pronounced as the 21st
century continued. This fairly recent post of yours is a good example,
and scarcely more literate than the one from 2002:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/86235bd045d1e86a?dmode=source
A particular affectation of yours is to order people to "try read"
something, usually the documentation, when you think they asked a
stupid question. Google counts nearly forty occurrences:
http://groups.google.com/groups/sea...as_usubject=&as_uauthors=Arne+Vajhøj&safe=off
For "try and", Google counts over 150, with the first hit being for
"try and read" specifically:
http://groups.google.com/groups/sea...as_usubject=&as_uauthors=Arne+Vajhøj&safe=off
Even though you frequently order other people to do a better job of
reading various things, your own reading comprehension (not to mention
spelling and grammar) sometimes leaves much to be desired. Two recent
examples:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/ebb01e54b5feb177?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/c2dc94bebab85c0c?dmode=source
In the first, you seem to have confused non-static for static, and in
the second, when someone asked why some software didn't notify them of
updates, you responded that it would be a bad idea for it to update
itself, which says nothing about mere notification of the existence of
an update. There are numerous other examples.
This type of thing, combined with the frequent egregious spelling and
grammar errors and the flaming, makes you appear to be an illiterate
brute, yet clearly you are not; you are knowledgeable about computer
programming, which is about as far from illiterate as it is possible
to get and which requires patience and delicacy rather than
brutishness. You can't browbeat a compiler into accepting bad code, or
browbeat the runtime environment into doing what you want it to; you
must finesse it.
Yet these days you treat computers better than you treat people.
Having discovered that people do sometimes do as you wish when
browbeaten, you've unfortunately made it a common way of interacting
with other people, as demonstrated by these Google pages:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/b3d4e7efaa2fd9cd?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/d7d67d116bd9c2e8/4aed1ac6fcbb2874
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/f13469c8a0beec89/69f0b091da259096
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/f13469c8a0beec89/8e63b61cb085fd90
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/d134f3b2fc7cb3a6/66a0cbc9aab98fe5
(continuing onto the next two pages of the same thread, for a grand
total of 24 posts in the space of just an hour and a half!)
Each of the above links shows a portion of a thread, with long runs of
many posts in a row by you flaming some target or another in each
case. You spare these targets no indignity and you bash them senseless
with sometimes upwards of a dozen short and nasty posts in a row, most
or all of which suggest that you find them mentally deficient and many
of which order them about, or bluntly refuse when they ask you to be
more polite, or similarly. These people are treated as if they were
wayward children and you were an abusive father. Needless to say, most
of them don't react well to this, and you sometimes get as good as you
gave. Particularly when you tangle with Twisted, which you have done
repeatedly even though you should know better than to feed the trolls
in any newsgroup.
The turning point was reached when the editor rwar to end all editor
rwars erupted in comp.lang.java.programmer after Twisted used the
nuclear option versus his growing chorus of detractors. Unwisely, you
waded into the fray almost immediately, and particularly stupidly, you
remained in it long after it should have been clear that Twisted was
as imperturbable and stubborn as a force of nature, unable to be
bargained with, negotiated with, or convinced of anything. Far from
tilting at windmills, trying to change his mind about anything is
clearly more like tilting at the very wind itself. You can make more
headway arguing with Mentifex.
Here is a flame by you early in that horrible excuse for a usenet
thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/25b677f177d13ea2?dmode=source
Here you and several others gang up on Twisted and try to invade his
privacy, which of course does not end well:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/ce27f65ea7256d97/85c23687384e630a
More browbeating of Twisted later in the thread and long after its
pointlessness had become apparent to every sane person on the face of
the Earth:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/ce27f65ea7256d97/c2f43bdb1c30a2dd
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/ce27f65ea7256d97/cf9308d12ff928a1
And there were several more voluminous bombing runs like that last,
all the way up until the thread finally petered out several whole
months after it had started. None accomplished any worthwhile goal
except to waste your time and further establish your reputation as a
nasty-tempered brute with a troll-feeding addiction.
The experience so traumatized you that you began jumping at shadows,
seeing Twisted hiding beneath every rock, lurking behind every wall,
armed and waiting beyond every door. Naturally, your response to
suspecting someone of being Twisted was not to dismiss your thoughts
as paranoia, nor to back away slowly, but instead to make wild
accusations and spray insults around like machinegun fire. The end
results have typically not been pretty, especially since you have
often combined this with browbeating, flaming, and attempts to invade
Twisted's privacy, which invariably results in Twisted himself
entering the fray, thereby ensuring the destruction of yet another
formerly-useful thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/47c0cc7cf3fe15cf/df3b046b65f2fc0f
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/91ee4f8b397f916e/063e06d2027b076d
Both of these examples also contain your infamous rude and
ungrammatical catch-phrase, "try read". Considering how you often
sound only semi-literate yourself, and the numerous demonstrations of
your own failures at reading comprehension (noted above), your
insinuations that others have poor literacy and reading comprehension
seem rather hypocritical.
Amazingly, you did eventually manage to successfully coerce Twisted
into changing his mind about something, eventually. By constantly
flaming other people accusing them of being him, you seem to have
single-handedly caused him to eventually relent on his insistence on
anonymity and reveal his real name in recent months, apparently
because even Twisted is not 100% without compassion and didn't believe
that other people deserved to be flamed for Twisted's own misdeeds.
This feat, of actually getting Twisted to change his mind, is truly
astounding. It's a shame it was accomplished by such bloody and
brutish methods.
Of course, it didn't appease you and your rampage continued; you have
kept right on launching paranoid attacks on random bystanders,
including this example posted less than a week ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/5510cb431852e058?dmode=source
This has already drawn Twisted into the thread to flame you and assert
his usual hostility towards "feedback loops", whatever those are.
Thus, a formerly-useful discussion of Java exception handling has now
been destroyed. Congratulations. Do you feel proud of this
accomplishment?
Others have called you on your paranoia (even discounting Twisted), to
no avail. Others have also implored you to stop feeding trolls,
including the very man that became the latest target of your paranoia,
but this advice you also have ignored. No matter how many times you
are told it's stupid behavior, anyone who disagrees with you you
insult, and anyone who flames back or otherwise refuses to bow to your
superior wisdom is flamed and frequently browbeaten and/or accused of
being Twisted.
And to top it all off, you have been known at times to express pro-
Microsoft sentiments:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/09ba4c34201ccbab?dmode=source
(and several subsequent posts to the same thread)
This, combined with your heavy participation in
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp, won't make you any friends
among the open source movement.
But what really does you in is your abrupt and impatient attitude and
your tendency to not only participate in flamewars and feed trolls but
to actively encourage the destruction of once-useful threads and to
take actions that you know will attract the participation of trolls.
These traits, which have grown worse over the years, serve you ill and
make it less likely that you will make friends anywhere, even among
Microsoft apologists. And there is the recent addition to your
repertoire of paranoia, which damages your credibility and leads to
yet more flamewars.
Partly, your problems stem from an apparent inability to simply ignore
someone once you begin to suspect that maybe they are stupid or
ignorant. Rather, you feel an irresistible compulsion to point these
traits out in whomever you suspect possesses them. Moreover, you
frequently feel the need to drive your point home with a sledgehammer.
Coupled with a curious inability to work your newsreader's killfile
(doubly curious in light of your knowledge of multiple operating
systems and programming languages) and your growing paranoia about
Twisted, they doom you to inarticulate rage and a signal to noise
ratio that is abysmal: over 90% of your news posts in recent years are
worthless, and over 10% are to the Thread From Hell alone.
Over the sixteen years since your initial spate of helpful posts to
comp.os.vms, you have ceased to bless Usenet with your presence and
begun instead to curse it, and particularly the newsgroup
comp.lang.java.programmer, which bears the brunt of the consequences
of your paranoia and unwillingness to killfile trolls. Not only do you
directly contribute a not-insignificant number of off-topic posts,
flames, and general rudeness to that group these days, but by
frequently rolling out the red carpet for Twisted by gratuitously
insulting him or accusing others of being him, you indirectly
contribute at least 40% of the total amount of noise in that
newsgroup, if not more. In newsgroups not afflicted with Twisted, it
is closer to 10%, but that's still not insignificant.
It is not too late to change your ways. Yet your rude impatience may
yet earn you a place of honor in alt.flame; your troll-feeding
tendencies may yet qualify you as a troll in your own right; and your
paranoia may yet earn you the title of KotM in alt.usenet.kooks.
If you have an excuse for your behavior, please speak now, and give
your apology before the witnesses gathered here.
If you do not, then know that your soul is forever tainted!
(My God, am