Chapter 36: Using MIL with .NET

This chapter explains how to use MIL while writing C# or Visual Basic in .NET.

• MIL with .NET overview
• Installing and upgrading the MIL.NET wrapper
• • Requirements and installation notes
  • Upgrading to new versions of Matrox.MatroxImagingLibrary.dll
• Building a .NET application using MIL
• • MIL inclusion procedure for .NET
  • • 32-bit and 64-bit applications
  • Calling MIL functions and constants in .NET
  • Disabling compiler warnings in .NET
  • • Procedure for disabling compiler warnings in C#
    • Procedure for disabling compiler warnings in Visual Basic
• Data types in MIL with .NET
• • MIL_ID and MIL_INT
  • Data type equivalents
• Using .NET strings with MIL
• Memory management while using MIL with .NET
• • M...Free versus finalizers
  • Invoking the garbage collector
  • Pinning memory to be used by MbufCreate...()
• Delegates and MIL hook-type functions
• • Lifetime of delegates passed to MIL hook-type functions
  • Passing user data to a user-defined function
• Error handling
• MIL with .NET example