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Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 Tutorial

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16 Jun 2007CPOL16 min read 484.4K   13.8K   149  
Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 is a new bridging tool allowing developers to use .NET Forms and .NET UserControls in VB6. This tutorial demonstrates how to add webservices, multithreading, and XAML to VB6 projects. It also provides custom C# Interop UserControl templates for use with the Toolkit.
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>8.0.50727</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{D2A37DEF-94E5-4213-9DDF-8C46BD6D1241}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>$safeprojectname$</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>$safeprojectname$</AssemblyName>
    <Win32Resource>InteropUserControl.RES</Win32Resource>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE;DEBUG;COM_INTEROP_ENABLED</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    <RegisterForComInterop>true</RegisterForComInterop>
    <UseVSHostingProcess>false</UseVSHostingProcess>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE;COM_INTEROP_ENABLED</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    <RegisterForComInterop>true</RegisterForComInterop>
    <UseVSHostingProcess>false</UseVSHostingProcess>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.VisualBasic" />
    <Reference Include="System" />
    <Reference Include="System.Data" />
    <Reference Include="System.Drawing" />
    <Reference Include="System.Windows.Forms" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="ActiveXControlHelpers.cs">
      <SubType>Component</SubType>
    </Compile>
    <Compile Include="InteropUserControl.cs">
    </Compile>
    <Compile Include="InteropUserControl.Designer.cs">
      <DependentUpon>InteropUserControl.cs</DependentUpon>
    </Compile>
    <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
    <Service Include="{94E38DFF-614B-4cbd-B67C-F211BB35CE8B}" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="InteropUserControl.bmp" />
    <Content Include="InteropUserControl.rc" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="InteropUserControl.manifest" />
    <None Include="InteropUserControl.res" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
  <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it. 
       Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
  </Target>
  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
  </Target>
  -->
  <PropertyGroup>
    <PreBuildEvent>@echo.
IF EXIST "$(DevEnvDir)..\..\SDK\v3.5\Bin\rc.exe" ("$(DevEnvDir)..\..\SDK\v3.5\Bin\rc.exe" /r "$(ProjectDir)InteropUserControl.rc") ELSE (IF EXIST "$(DevEnvDir)..\..\SDK\v2.0\Bin\rc.exe" ("$(DevEnvDir)..\..\SDK\v2.0\Bin\rc.exe"/r "$(ProjectDir)InteropUserControl.rc") ELSE (IF EXIST "$(DevEnvDir)..\Tools\Bin\rc.exe" ("$(DevEnvDir)..\Tools\Bin\rc.exe"/r "$(ProjectDir)InteropUserControl.rc") ELSE (IF EXIST "$(DevEnvDir)..\..\VC\Bin\rc.exe" ("$(DevEnvDir)..\..\VC\Bin\rc.exe"/r "$(ProjectDir)InteropUserControl.rc") ELSE (@Echo Unable to find rc.exe, using default manifest instead))))
@echo.</PreBuildEvent>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

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