Use of External APIs from VSCode Extension

[McPherran]

#1. I'm interested in any various means to call a function in an arbitrary dll from a VSCode extension. (E.g. Analogous to use of P/Invoke in C#).

#2. Is the idea that a Visual Studio Code extension can generally do anything that can be done with node.js?

Thank You

[alefragnani]

Hi @McPherran ,

I’m not an specialist on the Q1 area,, so I can’t give you examples on how to do it, except describing tools/libraries that has been found on researches, like Edge.js, node-gyp, node-ffi-napi. I don’t know how powerful those libraries are but, it seems possible. Worth a try.

About Q2, I would like to provide you an additional info, which is, even VS Code application being built using Electron, VS Code also runs on the web. In this platform, it does not depend on Node.js. So the answer for your second question should be no, if you consider VS Code entirely.

Hope this helps