Access a custom .NET DLL in VBScript

微笑、不失礼 提交于 2019-11-28 22:01:09
huseyint

You can register that .NET dll with regasm utility by specifying /codebase parameter. This parameter is not encouraged to use with unsigned assemblies but it works when you can not put your assembly into GAC.

regasm your.dll /codebase

Please note that you should not change your .dll's path after this operation since it inserts this path into the Windows registry.

foolshat

I just had to do this myself, my findings were:

Making types visible to COM:

  1. Ensure your class is public, non-static and has a public default constructor i.e. not arguments.
  2. Ensure your method is public, non-static.
  3. Ensure you have the following set on your assembly - typically in AssemblyInfo.cs

    [assembly: ComVisible(true)]
    
  4. After building your DLL, from SDK command line run:

    regasm yourdll.dll
    

    This should respond:

    Types registered successfully

    If you get

    RegAsm: warning RA0000: No types were registered

    then you need to set ComVisible or have no public, non-static types.

From PowerShell

$a = New-Object -comobject Your.Utils.Logging
$a.WriteError2("Application", "hello",1,1)

From vbs

Set logger = CreateObject("Your.Utils.Logging")
logger.WriteError2 "Application", "hello from vbs",1,1 

huseyint's answer was on the money, however, I wanted to add a little to it. Here is some sample code I used for this very issue, perhaps it can speed you along...

// bind a variabe to WScript.Shell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

// define the path to the regasm.exe file
RegAsmPath = "c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\RegAsm.exe"

// register the dll
WshShell.run "cmd /c " & RegAsmPath & " c:\temp\cbsecurity.dll /codebase /nologo /s", 0, True

// bind a variable to the dll
Set cbUtil = CreateObject("CBSecurity.Utilities")

I had included an IsAlive method in the dll...

Public Function IsAlive() As Boolean
    Return True
End Function

...and could check that it registered correctly using the syntax:

//check if dll is available to your code
msgbox "cbUtil is alive: " & cbUtil.IsAlive

Hope this helps someone...

In case someone needs to debug/step-into the .Net dll that's called from VBScript only:

  1. On the .Net dll project debug setup screen, set the "start external program" by browsing to the wscript.exe program (located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscript.exe).

  2. On the "Command Line Arguments", set the file name and path location of the VBScript file (C:\Test\myTest.vbs). Make sure the vbs file and dll file are in the same location.

  3. Finally, in the .Net project DLL source code just set the break point and hit the "start debug"

Not directly. You'll need a COM Callable Wrapper to any .NET library you'll calling from COM (and hence, VBScript). Therefore, you should either directly create a CCW to the DLL or you can create a CCW for a proxy DLL which provides generic methods to load a .NET DLL and provide methods for you that call the actual methods on the component and return the result. It's really not clean at all. So, in general, the answer is no.

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