BigARTM & C# .NET

[aleksblock]

Hi! I'm developing WinForms applications in C#. Please tell me how I can use the library BigARTM in C#. Can be there is examples? How you can use the classes in message.cs in csharp folder? Thanks,Alex.

[ofrei]

Hi @aleksblock
I don't have examples to share, however there was one proprietary project that used BigARTM from C# - so it's possible, and not to much work. Starting point is here:
http://docs.bigartm.org/en/stable/api_references/c_interface.html
This page describes low-level BigARTM API in C, which is callable from C# via PInvoke. Can you try to call ArtmGetVersion from artm.dll, and let me know if it works for you?

For more complex method you need to pass (or retrieve) messages -- either as protobuf, or as json. If you choose protobuf, you'll need to compile messages.proto file into C# classes. Instructions in csharp folder are somewhat outdated - BigARTM now uses protobuf 3.0, which has out of the box support for C# (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/csharptutorial ). If you choose to pass messages as json, take a look here : https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json , and of course at messages.proto .

I'm happy to discuss in more details. Btw, have you already used BigARTM from C++ or from Python? These APIs also go through low-level C interface.