RE: Vim OLE and C# - Solution

[David Fishburn]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:12 PM
> To: vim@vim.org
> Subject: Vim OLE and C#
> 
> 
> I have the following VB code:
> 
>     Dim Vim As Object
>     Set Vim = CreateObject("Vim.Application")
>     Vim.SendKeys "<ESC>:e "
> 
> I want to do the samething in C# (of which my skills are 
> quite weak).  I have the following:
>       object Vim;
>       Vim =
> Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Vim.Application"));
>       Vim.SendKeys("<ESC>:e ");
> 
> Most of that was grabbed from Google.
> 
> Compiler error:
> Error 3       'object' does not contain a definition for 
> 'SendKeys'    ...
> 
> I am assuming I must strongly type the object, so I tried:
>       Vim.Application Vim;
> 
> Error 3       The type or namespace name 'Vim' could not be 
> found (are you
> missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)  ...
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Once I get this working I will get it added under this 
> section in the Vim
> help:
> :h ole-activation

Bram, I managed to get this working.

If you could update ole-activation section of the help, it might help
others.


Add a reference to VIM in your project. You need to select "VIM Ole
Interface" from the COM tab.

Add "using Vim; " to the top of the file.
Then the following code works.
           Vim.Vim vimobj = new Vim.Vim();
            vimobj.SendKeys(":enew\n");


Dave