C# – Tool to import Type Libraries as C# code

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Is there a tool to import/convert COM type libraries into C# code rather than generating an assembly? The TLBIMP tool and the TypeLibaryConverter class only generate assemblies.

I've had some success ripping the C# ComImport definitions by running Reflector over the generated Interop assembly and copying a pasting the disassembled source, but this usually requires quite a bit of manual patching up before it'll compile.

Desired goal is a single EXE without satellite Interop DLLs, so perhaps the answer is to use ILMerge to effectively embed the interop DLL in the EXE.

I was sure in the past I'd come across such a tool – but maybe it dreamt it 🙂

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I'm not so sure it is going to be useful to you, but the source code for a managed version of Tlbimp.exe has been released on CodePlex. VS2010 will definitely solve your problem.

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An easy to understand and simple solution.

// Save today's date.
var today = DateTime.Today;

// Calculate the age.
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// Go back to the year in which the person was born in case of a leap year
if (birthdate.Date > today.AddYears(-age)) age--;

However, this assumes you are looking for the western idea of the age and not using East Asian reckoning.

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You can try the /strictref option, but I don't think it's going to help you.

I suggest you examine the GridEX20.dll with Dependency Walker (for VS2005, it was found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\Bin, but I don't think it's shipped any more - you can find a version here).

That should tell you which assemblies the dll depends on - which will at least confirm whether your initial hypothesis is correct.

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