Add marshal.GetActiveObject() to available p/invoke funktions e.g. as extension?

[DevTKSS]

Uno is officially not compartiblity to .net Framework e.g 4.8 what I do have to connect to at my job. But I thought about, just because its not at all guaranteed to be working especially in this scenario and then the difficulty has future more been to me, that the application that has been is a COM interop I only got a interop.dll from🫣😅🤷

Was almost giving up, but tryed out this last thing expecting it already do just fail! But... IT WORKS GREAT!

So to enable others to do the same if they need to and futuremore not having to create a own library with this locally, I would love to have this functionality added to the uno capabilities and enhance also its (backwards) compartiblity! 😍

The code I used just from a blog related to the com interop spoken of instead, has been multiple times posted in the Internet at different locations and if I understood (language translation) it correctly they all resourced their created code from Microsoft/Windows itself.

I would offer to contribute this, but would need some help with it please:

• 1. Which directory this should be added best?
• 2. Would like to make it a public ==extension== which should extend the ==original Marshall class==, but I did not got this correctly set up locally as such. I am currently calling it by MarshalExtension.GetActiveObject(...) instead of Marshal.GetActiveObject(...)
  • 2.1. Naming?
  • 2.2. Import and maybe use extension attributes + accessors setup check

Would afterwards offer to add also a uno doc page to it in the p/invoke area including a usage sample.

What do you say? Please let me know by upvoting this cool idea!
Anyone there who wants to join an help out on this?

[jeromelaban]

This is a great idea for a nuget package (if it does not already exist). I don't think this has to be part of Uno, as it does not touch any part of the Uno features themselves.

[DevTKSS]

the thought was, because there are already some (2?) p/invoke functions listed in the docs, thats why I thought that would maybe be a good idea

[jeromelaban]

Which functions are you referring to?

[DevTKSS]

@jeromelaban
https://platform.uno/blog/c-interop-with-c-c-and-rust-in-webassembly/
that one for example is defintly using p/invoke and interop... so that's why I thought, this might be interesting. But if you dont want it, thats okay and I will just stay on using my lib project.

[jeromelaban]

Ah I see. The contents of this post is not part of Uno, it's integrated in a sample in the same way you integrate your helper.