We will go through code which demonstrate interoperability to point out some interesting techniques. 1 In-process interoperability schema.ĭesigning DLL native code for interoperability
We will give our attention to the VBA and. The upper right part of the picture was already discussed in article:”Java/Jmdl communication with MDL application” (MicroStation Manager 12/2001). This could be one of the good reason why to compile MDL code into DLL – just to be in the “centre”. shows that the central point of intercommunication is a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) which is capable to interact with different platforms. We will focus in this contribution to these features – mutual interoperability among different platforms accessible in MicroStation.įig 1. The key feature of each new technology is often backward compatibility or interoperability with the current code.
This platform we my immediately use for MicroStation development as will be shown in the article. NET framework and its SDK which defines a new platform for software solutions. Third time lucky, Microsoft has recently released final version of. On Bentley newsgroup someone says that the letter “L” in MDL now means Library not Language. MicroStation v8 brings to developers among others two practical features: First in form of integration of Microsoft’s Visual Basic for Application and second complete possibility to compile MDL code into native DLL and use Visual Studio for debugging.