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Resolved Converting External dlls from PB to C#

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  1. Igor Perisic
    Igor Perisic
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  3. Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:38 PM UTC

Hi!

I am converting a few PowerBuilder apps to C# but I am not sure how to convert dlls from PowerBuilder to C#.

One of my dlls in PB is defined as FUNCTION longptr Decrypt(ref longptr decryptMem) LIBRARY "DecryptDLL.dll" alias for "Decrypt;Ansi"

I call this function in PB like so, LocalErrorCode = Decrypt(decryptMem), where decryptMem is a longptr and LocalErrorCode is an int.

 

And then in C# I have it defined as

[DllImport("DecryptDLL.dll")]
private static extern long Decrypt(ref long decryptMem);
 
When I call this function inside my C# app I get returned the wrong values.
I call it like so LocalErrorCode = (int)Decrypt(ref decryptMem); where decryptMem is a long and LocalErrorCode is an int. 
 
Inside PB: LocalErrorCode is 0 and decryptMem is 3062099201824. Which is what it should be
Inside C#: LocalErrorCode is -1105657857 and decryptMem is 2571579608608.
 
Not exactly sure where I am messing up, maybe I have variables defined as the wrong type. Does C# need to have a line like PB does for "alias for "Decrypt;Ansi""?
 
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Francisco Martinez @Appeon
Francisco Martinez @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:17 PM UTC
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Hi Igor,

I'm not all too familiar with this topic, but something caught my eye: you're declaring the external function in C# as taking and returning longs, but you catch/pass ints.

I wonder if this discrepancy could have something to do with the issue.

Regards,
Francisco

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John Fauss
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  1. Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:48 PM UTC
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Hi, Igor -

Why are you trying to utilize a decryption DLL when (I assume) there are native C# objects available to do this? I'm not very C# knowledgeable, but this appears an unusual approach to decrypting data. I'm also not sure why the external function declaration in PB specifies ANSI translation, since both the argument value and return value for the DLL entry point/function are numeric. Is this DLL from a third-party source? If so, perhaps the vendor/author has a C# solution.

Best regards, John

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:02 PM UTC
Adding to what John said, it is not best practice to have unmanaged code (e.g. C++ DLL) in a .NET project. If the functionality of this DLL is natively supported in .NET, it is strongly recommend to change your implementation as such.
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Roland Smith
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  1. Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:02 PM UTC
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Since you are going through the bother of rewriting PB to C#, you should do the encryt/decrypt using C# native methods.

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