[Neworleans-pm] Windows & .Net

[Joey Kelly]

On 06/08/2012 05:37 PM, John Souvestre wrote:
> Hi.
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> I'd like to post a question.
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> The other day I wanted to call a .Net method from Perl (Strawberry Perl on
> Windows 7).  I didn't see an easy way.  I understand that Active State has
> out an interface but it is part of their package.

I have no idea about Perl on Windows (I've heard the packages you're 
mentioning, but that's about all).

That said, the .Nyet method you want to call, can you do it from a DOS 
prompt? If so, can't you simply do 'system "some DOS command here"' with 
Perl?

--Joey

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> I have used the Win32 and Win32::API modules for various misc things.  I
> understand that Win32::OLE does well for OLE interfacing.  I'm surprised
> that there isn't a generic .Net module too.
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> Am I silly to be using Strawberry instead of Active State?  About half of
> what I do is for Windows (more, recently) and the other half for Linux.  I
> prefer the command line interface as I have an editor I'm comfortable with.
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> I did try Active State a few years ago when I was just starting with Perl.
> I don't believe that you could use CPAN modules then, only theirs.  But I
> understand that they have opened that up.
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> John
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>      John Souvestre - New Orleans LA - (504) 454-0899
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Joey Kelly
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