###Sample .NET/CLR plugin for WaveMetrics' Igor Pro
This repo contains the source code for my XOP.NET project on IgorExchange
It is a barebones Visual Studio 2012 solution for an Igor Pro XOP that calls C# (.NET) code in a separate library.
It was originally written to work on Igor 5 and I've now updated it for Igor 6.3.
To use it, you'll need to already be familiar with both .NET and XOP programming, and you'll need to write a little bit of C++/CLI, Microsoft's C++ -like language that lets you mix managed .NET code with traditional C++.
The basic idea is to compile the XOP as a C++/CLI project, and in places where the XOP functions are executed, put in C++/CLI calls to the external C# code. You can see an example of this in the MyFunc function in MyXOP/MyXOP.cpp
###To build and test
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Make sure you've built the XOPSupport project in your XOP Toolkit folder
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Set an environment variable called XOPSupport to point to the XOPSupport directory
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Copy
Igor.lib,XOPSupport.lib, andvc90.pdbinto the locallibdirectory. -
Build this solution. It will put MyCSharpLib.dll and MyXOP.xop in XOP.NET\output
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In your Igor Extensions folder, make a shortcut to MyXOP.xop.
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Start Igor
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Enter the following command
Print MyFunc(6,7)You should see
42. That multiplication was courtesy of the .NET runtime.
The DllResolver.cpp file is there to help the .NET runtime library loader find
your custom .NET library, which gets loaded in step 6. Without it, the
standard library search behavior
doesn't work properly.
If you only have access to the 'Express' (free) versions of Visual Studio, the
XOP.NET.sln 'solution' file won't work for you. Instead, open the 'project' files
MyXOP.vcproj and MyCSharpLib.csproj individually. You may need to mess with some
settings in the VC project so it can find the C# library dependency.
###License Some parts of the source code are copies, or modified versions, of the example code in the XOP Toolkit. The modifications, and the new code here are provided under the open source BSD license