Anyone can share a working example on how to call a simple C# library (actually its WPF) from python code? (I have tried using IronPython and had too much trouble with unsupported CPython library my python code is using so I thought of trying the other way around and calling my C# code from Python).
Here is the example I was playing with:
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.EnterpriseServices;
namespace DataViewerLibrary
{
public interface ISimpleProvider
{
[DispIdAttribute(0)]
void Start();
}
[ComVisible(true)]
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
public class PlotData : ServicedComponent, ISimpleProvider
{
public void Start()
{
Plot plotter = new Plot();
plotter.ShowDialog();
}
}
}
Plotter is a WPF windows that plots an Ellipse
I don't know how to call this code from my python all. Any suggestions?
It is actually pretty easy. Just use NuGet to add the "UnmanagedExports" package to your .Net project. See https://sites.google.com/site/robertgiesecke/Home/uploads/unmanagedexports for details.
You can then export directly, without having to do a COM layer. Here is the sample C# code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using RGiesecke.DllExport;
class Test
{
[DllExport("add", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
public static int TestExport(int left, int right)
{
return left + right;
}
}
You can then load the dll and call the exposed methods in Python (works for 2.7)
import ctypes
a = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(source)
a.add(3, 5)