Re: Access .net object from PERL

Another possibility is that the .NET dlls can be exported as COM objects, and then you could access them as usual. Depends on the 3rd party, I guess.

You could write a .NET wrapper to the 3rd party code that calls the methods you want, and then you can export your wrapper code to COM. I've been doing some of this lately (exporting .NET to COM for 'legacy' apps), so /msg me if it's something you'd want more details on.

HTH, J

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Re^2: Access .net object from PERL by jimbojones (Friar) on Apr 26, 2006 at 16:04 UTC
Hello As a follow-up to the above, here's how you can wrapper .NET code and expose it to COM, making it available to Perl. The following example wrappers the .NET System.Console.Write and System.Console.WriteLine methods. Read more... (3 kB)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Access .net object from PERL by bart (Canon) on Apr 24, 2006 at 19:10 UTC
What does "as usual" mean, in Perl terms?	[reply]
Re^3: Access .net object from PERL by jimbojones (Friar) on Apr 24, 2006 at 19:35 UTC
Hi Sorry, "as usual" was probably an over-statement. The OP said "It was easy enough to do the old OLE or COM objects," so I assume there is some way to do it with COM objects through `Win32::OLE`. My experience of late has been to invoke .NET dlls from legacy C apps through COM wrappers. I haven't done this with Perl, but putting it all together (.NET -> COM -> Perl thru OLE ) should work. - j	[reply] [d/l]