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Submitted on: 11/2/2000 5:07:00 PM
By: Kimon Andreou 
Level: Intermediate
User Rating: By 33 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0

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     C2VB parses through C style declarations of functions, structures etc and creates the VB equivalent. I decided to create this little program to make my life easier when working with APIs. Instead of having to "translate" an API declaration from the Platform SDK help file, I wanted a way to do that automatically. This is the result. All you have to do, is copy paste the declaration from the help file. Apart from being a handy app. it demonstrates how to parse instructions, how to implement a rudimentary splitter and above all, it explains what do all those wierd things mean in C! It can process either user inputted instructions or it can read from a file. Optionally, a filename can be passed on the command line. If you have any comments or disagree with the way I converted the datatypes, let me know.

 
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11/2/2000 8:03:48 PM:Anonymous
Now all you need to do is make it 
convert .cpp files...
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11/4/2000 12:12:10 AM:Jeff Cockayne
What an unbelieveably useful app! 
Thanks!!!!! I'm reasonably good at 
reading C, but what a time saver...
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11/4/2000 9:42:03 AM:Dan Messenger
this code is the tops, i know nothing 
in C, so i also have problems - 
especially when looking through MSDN. 
Thanks!
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11/4/2000 11:16:51 AM:Benjo Bartolome
I really needed this!!!!!!!!
Thank 
you VERYYYYYY MUCCCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!1
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11/18/2000 11:54:10 AM:kle
Cool Code.
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12/4/2000 5:32:20 PM:Daniel Vandersluis
Of course, you could just use the API 
reference app included with VB, 
but...
Just Kidding! It's a great idea 
and a great app!
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12/6/2000 10:43:06 AM:Cossak
Nice1 :-)
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12/7/2000 1:26:25 PM:DiB
Daniel, not every API is included with 
the API app that comes with VB. Also if 
you need to convert a custom struct 
this proves quite usefull. I think this 
program is great and because it's open 
source I can fix some of the bugs I've 
found without waiting for the author to 
update it him/herself. Good job Kimon, 
this is a great program and I thank you 
for it.
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12/7/2000 3:04:45 PM:Kimon Andreou
Thanks everybody for your feedback!
It 
took me a while to develop this 
program.
DiB, you're right about 
Microsoft's API app that comes with VB. 
 Not only it doesn't contain all the 
declarations, many of them are wrong.  
As for the bugs you mentioned, I'd 
appreciate it if you would send me any 
changes you make or a list of those 
bugs.
One bug I've discovered is when 
converting unions within structures, 
although it was initially working I 
guess by adding more functionality I 
broke that part.
Finally, my next 
project is to process C++ files, but 
don't expect it anytime soon.  Handling 
all those objects & classes is a 
pain.
Thanks
Kimon
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12/14/2000 7:53:43 AM:Linguar
Wow,
Never thought about posting such 
a thing...  Good job though.  I've done 
something similar, however, I'm not 
sure how effective it is.
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12/23/2000 11:31:47 PM:Gavin
Nice Very Nice.
Well done ive been 
waiting for something like this for 
ages.
keep up the good work !!
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2/7/2001 5:51:38 AM:Rob Van Mieghem
It's a really nice tool and a time 
saver, I just want to warn beginner api 
programmers that there is no such thing 
as a standard way of passing byval or 
byref, it depends on what you're trying 
to do. You can for example just as well 
pass a stringvalue as a long(if you 
want to use a unicode version of an 
extern method and don't want VB to 
transform your string to ascii). Always 
be careful of what you're doing, 
especially when working with windows 
api. I don't want to discourage you 
all, just want to encourage you to go 
into detail in whatever you develop. 
Have fun
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2/13/2001 3:55:21 PM:mgigani
Does anyone know if there is program 
that will convert C sub/functions to VB 
sub/functions.  I have some C routines 
that needs to be converted to VB. I am 
will to pay for such a thing.  
Thanks
If you know of such a tool 
please send me an email about it 
(mgigani@aol.com) Thanks a bunch
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4/3/2001 6:55:52 PM:Benj
I can't seem to get it to work I tried 
converting Winuser.h file from .Net ws 
up.... Any Ideas??? email me..
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4/10/2002 2:47:16 AM:Unruled Boy
this is fatastic!
could it convert 
vb to c?
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7/8/2002 2:52:25 AM:Daniel Pramel
nice tool which saves a lot of 
time.
Cool idea 5 from me
Daniel
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8/13/2002 5:29:13 AM:Any
Good! ÇÏÇÏ...
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6/22/2003 6:27:06 AM:
is there a way 2 transform vb code to 
C++
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