Using CSharp Mapscript with VS2005 and .NET 2.0

[Abe Gillespie]

Just to offer an alternative ... SharpMap is really pretty nice:

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=SharpMap

-Abe

On 8/28/06, Jim Bartol <jbartol at mmm.com> wrote:
> I have been experimenting with the latest version of MS4W V2.1 via a web
> browser, and learning some of the basics about how MapServer works.  I am
> now trying to use CSharp Mapscript to access MapServer directly from a
> WinForms application.  I understand that the MS4W binaries have been
> compiled for .NET 1.1, and that there are some issues with running them
> against .NET 2.0 as described in
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/mapscriptcscompile.  My
> *.exe.manifest file shows a reference to the CRT as described in section
> 3.1 of this website, but I still get a runtime error "The type initializer
> for 'mapscriptPINVOKE' threw an exception" when creating an instance of a
> MapServer object (e.g., mapObj map = new MapObj("mapfile.map").  Both
> mapscript.dll and mapscript_csharp.dll are in my bin/debug directory.
>
> I came across a previous post from David Lother who may have worked through
> a similar problem.  Any suggestions as to what I might be missing in
> regards to building a WinForms app with CSharp Mapscript?  Could there be
> something I've overlooked regarding manifest files?  Can I use MS4W V2.1
> with .NET 2.0, or should I rebuild the binaries using the VS2005 compiler?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,
>