Mapscript.dll from Visual Basic?

[Tamas Szekeres]

Currently there's no explicit COM API supported by the mapserver
project. However I'm planning to create a proposal for supporting this
this kind of interface in the near future.
I can think about 2 potential (easily manageable) solutions to achieve
this functionality.

1. Creating a COM Callable Wrapper (CCW) around the mapscript C# API
2. Creating a SWIG generated ATL COM interface for the project.

I would favour the latter to accomplish this task. Since the SWIG
project does not support creating a COM API directly I'm on the way of
writing some additions to the existing swigxmltocom project to
implment the required functionality.

Best regards,


Tamas Szekeres




2007/2/19, Jeff Dege <jdege at korterra.com>:
> VB6, actually.
>
> If we were working in .NET, we'd be using C#.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tamas Szekeres [mailto:szekerest at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:47 PM
> > To: Jeff Dege
> > Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapscript.dll from Visual Basic?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are you referring to VB6 or VB.NET ?
> >
> > Tamas
> >
> >
> > 2007/2/19, Jeff Dege <jdege at korterra.com>:
> > > Has anyone tried using the Mapscript DLLs not through a browser, but
> > > directly from a VB app?
> > >
> >
>