FSUIPC over VB.NET

[otherside]

Hey guys

 

Has anyone every written any software in vb.net to communicate FSUIPC.DLL for microsoft flight simulator ?

 

i need to write some software for msfs but i have no idea how to use fsuipc.dll in vb.net

 

anyone has any starting code or anything relevant

 

i would greately appreciate it.

 

thanks guys

 

Panos

[Nerseus]

This is a bit old (2002), but should get you started:

http://vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=12044

 

The idea is that you'll have to declare all functions yourself as PInvoke calls (calls into a native code DLL). You can definitely do this in VB.NET, but it might take a bit of... endurance to get the calls made correctly.

 

I know nothing about interfacing with MSFS so I can't help. I will say that if you need to create a DLL that's compatable with the game, then it's VERY unlikely that any .NET DLL will work for you. If you just need code to interface with their DLL, then you might be able to get something working.

 

Good luck,

ner

[otherside]

Thanks Nerseus for your reply

 

actually it was on my face and i couldn't see it, inside the FSUIPC SDK there are example codes for vb.net. Quite usefull, just if anyone asks again here i'll be developing a full oop COM component to use with FSUIPC ;-)