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While I now have Piggy producing a p/invoke header for a Clang-C header file, there are several improvements that I’ve made or will make soon.

With a bit of hacking for the last month or two, and I can finally see that I am making progress on Piggy, a new kind of p/invoke generator. Some might say “Why in the world are you wasting time writing a p/invoke generator? Aren’t there tools already that do this?” Well, yeah, there are other generators, …

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If you’ve been programming in C# for a while, at some point you found yourself needing to call C libraries. It isn’t often, but when you have to do it, it’s like pulling teeth. One option is to set up a C++/CLI interface; the other is a p/invoke interface to a DLL containing the C …

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For these last few weeks, I’ve been trying to grapple with the problem of p/invoke–the nasty but must-use feature in C#. While one could write these declarations out by hand, some libraries are too large, and change too often, so people use p/invoke generators, like SWIG. However, the is no generator that is easy to …

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Lately, I’ve been catching up on some reading. Here are some links to blogs in programming, computer science, and math, which I find interesting and useful. Enjoy. –Ken

I’ve been lax the last six months on my blog, working instead on Campy (a C#/GPU programming language extension). Now that that is slightly under control, time to get back to the blog. And, by the way, the whole reason for Campy is to implement popular algorithms to run on a GPU, I thought I’d …

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I’m going to tell a story that probably many of you can relate to. Last week, I experienced a slow motion catastrophic failure in Windows. It surprise me because ever since Windows 7, I’ve had pretty good luck in rolling forward with the updates and upgrades of the OS. But, that changed when I moved …

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Today, I’m writing this note about backup procedures for Windows. Up to now, I’ve been backing up my Windows machines (operating currently five) in an ad hoc manner. Cringe you may, but I’d only made a backup once a month or so. Well, for the many decades I’ve been working with computers, I’ve never lost …

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What is this Net Core everyone is talking about? Net Core is a cross-platform application framework for C#. With Visual Studio or the Net Core tool set, it’s not too hard to build server applications on any platform that can be deployed to any platform. This is remarkable considering the source code for C#/NET was proprietary code …

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