Sample for Visual Studio.net (VB.net, C#) ?

[clickman]

I'm a really bad C/C++ programmer, and I'm searching for sample of wacs build with Visual Studio.net (VB.net, C#) in order to build my own.

Is someone have already build something like this ?

Thanks guys !

[C_Wizard]

The problem with VS.NET is that you can't make native win32 C# program, you can only make apps that runs in the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime). So it may took time to see something for these languages (communication between win32<->.net is not easy to implement).

If you want to use VS.NET you can use VC++7 which works perfectly with the provided SDK (and the editor is soooooo good).

[clickman]

Maybe there is a way to build a VC++7 Classes DLL who implement in the .net format the Winamp3 classes for use in any VS.net languages.

Something like a Winamp3.studio.ComponentAPI class that implement the ComponentAPI class in studio/api.h, for example...

[Snoogans]

I was looking around for exactly what you guys were looking for, this code can probably be very easily changed to work for VB.NET and also to work with the WM_COMMAND features of Winamp.

Here ya go:

public class Control
{
public Control()
{
WINDOW_HANDLER = FindWindow("Winamp v1.x",null);

if(WINDOW_HANDLER == 0)
{
throw new Exception("Could not find a Winamp window!");
}
}

private int WINDOW_HANDLER;
// following values found in WinUser.h
private const int WM_COMMAND = 0x111;
private const int WM_USER = 0x400;
private const int WM_COPYDATA = 0x4A;


public const int WINAMP_PLAY = 40045;
public const int WINAMP_PREVIOUS = 40044;
public const int WINAMP_PAUSE_TOGGLE = 40046;
public const int WINAMP_STOP = 40047;
public const int WINAMP_FADEOUT_STOP = 40147;
public const int WINAMP_NEXT = 40048;

[DllImport("user32.dll",EntryPoint="SendMessage")]
private static extern int SendMessage(int _WindowHandler, int _WM_USER, int _data, int _id);

[DllImport("user32.dll",EntryPoint="FindWindow")]
private static extern int FindWindow(string _ClassName, string _WindowName);

public void SendCommand(int _command)
{
SendMessage(WINDOW_HANDLER,WM_COMMAND,_command,0);
}


}

[schweitn]

This will only work for Winamp 2x... and for Winamp 3 IF the Winamp 2x Plugin Manager is installed.

Winamp 3 does not support the api natively... its API is completely different, and it would take some work to make it .NET compatable.