v0.1.689-beta

What's Changed

• Update metadata to 23.0.2-preview by @AArnott in #538
• README: Fix Newer metadata section commandline by @Thog in #540
• Make it easier to test CPU architectures in multiple tests by @AArnott in #495
• Automatically apply PreserveSig behavior where metadata sets the flag by @AArnott in #542
• Propagate [Obsolete] attribute on fields from the metadata by @AArnott in #543
• Add support for generating many constants based on wildcard by @AArnott in #544
• Reuse .NET NativeOverlapped struct instead of generating our own by @AArnott in #546
• Detect and report suspicious characters in NativeMethods.txt by @AArnott in #548
• Generate constants into their typedef structs wherever possible by @AArnott in #550
• Produce friendly overloads for in/out PWSTR parameters by @AArnott in #551
• Add SizeParamIndex or CountConst as required to extern methods by @AArnott in #552
• Emit assembly attribute with CsWin32 version stamp by @AArnott in #555
• Recognize documented invalid values for handles by @AArnott in #557
• Share MetadataIndex instances across multiple generators by @AArnott in #558

New Contributors

• @Thog made their first contribution in #540

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v0.1.647-beta

What's Changed

• Allow memory-mapped file to open for shared reading by @AArnott in #536

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v0.1.646-beta

What's Changed

• Avoid mapping the metadata file more than once by @AArnott in #529

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v0.1.635-beta

What's Changed

• Generate cocreatable types as classes with [ComImport] by @AArnott in #454
• Check whether Span exists before using it by @jnm2 in #450
• Promote visibility of members in all templates by @AArnott in #458
• Re-apply System.Text.Encodings.Web update by @AArnott in #459
• Update metadata to 17.0.2-preview by @AArnott in #489

Full Changelog: v0.1.619-beta...v0.1.635-beta

v0.1.619-beta

Changes:

Fixes:

• #429: Can't emit interface in 2nd winmd that inherits from interface in 1st winmd
• #430: Can't emit items from 2nd winmd if its namespace doesn't start with Windows.Win32
• #431: IEnumMoniker returns null-elements in marshaling environment
• #370: Toggling allowMarshaling breaks the IDE experience till reload
• #419: Regression in 0.1.560-beta CS0436/CS0103 due to type conflict
• #422: Fix schema descriptions
• #446: Fix cross-winmd type references
• #418: Fix generation of interop types from multiple winmd's
• #421: Fix source generation break when NativeMethods.json does not parse

Enhancements:

• #433: Apply [Out] to marshalled arrays where [Out] is in the metadata
• #442: Reuse SafeRegistryHandle instead of generating RegCloseKeySafeHandle
• #447: Update win32metadata to 15.0.1-preview
• #415: Enable APIs using synthesized types to be used on net35
• #444: Consolidate extern method and constants into the same class

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v0.1.588-beta

Changes:

Fixes:

• #369: VS editor constantly warns about inconsistent line endings
• #389: Struct getting created with ANSI instead of Unicode string fields, leading to wrong Marshal.SizeOf result

Others:

• #412: Generate code with consistent line endings
• #410: Apply [StructLayout(CharSet.Unicode)] to structs that contain the char type

This list of changes was auto generated.

v0.1.584-beta

Changes:

Fixes:

• #396: FARPROC, PROC should be expressed as typedef structs with IntPtr field instead of a delegate

Enhancements:

• #406: A variety of enhancements for fixed length inline arrays
• #301: Generate ToString methods on fixed-length char arrays
• #391: Offer friendly overloads for ANSI-only methods
• #395: Allow fixed char array field initialization with string
• #385: Fixed length inline arrays are difficult to initialize

Others:

• #407: Suppress CS0436 in generated files

This list of changes was auto generated.

v0.1.560-beta

Changes:

Fixes:

• #362: GetMessage returns a bool when it should return a BOOL
• #316: Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Win32Docs.dll appears in build and publish output
• #375: Fix detection of SupportedOSPlatformAttribute
• #357: Fix marshaling of NativeArrayInfo parameters
• #325: Suppress Win32Docs showing up as a runtime dependency downstream
• #331: Fix SA1629 "... should end with a period" in generated xml docs

Enhancements:

• #386: Enable creating C# projections based on multiple input winmd's and docs
• #388: Update win32metadata to 10.2.163-preview

This list of changes was auto generated.

v0.1.506-beta

Changes:

Fixes:

• #229: Friendly overloads are missing SupportedOSPlatform
• #198: COM interfaces should have attributed with [ComImport]

Enhancements:

• #309: Consume API docs from win32metadata
• #302: Perf work
• #307: Fix startup perf (YAML to messagepack)
• #303: Replace NormalizeWhitespace with manually generated whitespace
• #293: HANDLE typedefs should overload the == operator
• #299: Update metadata version to 10.2.84-preview
• #294: Downgrade System.Text.Json version
• #208: Please skip emitting DefaultDllImportSearchPaths on targets < net45
• #40: Filter generated output based on target WinSDK version
• #196: Emit suggestions when requested API does not exist
• #103: Generate generic method overloads where out void* appears for one parameter
• #182: LPARAM should declare an implicit conversion from nint
• #212: Attribute COM interfaces with [ComImport]
• #210: Omit DefaultDllImportSearchPathsAttribute generation on older TFMs
• #204: Add SupportedOSPlatformAttribute to generated code
• #203: Suggest APIs for NativeMethods.txt when no match is found in the metadata
• #201: Add CoCreateInstance generic friendly overload
• #200: Offer implicit conversion from nint/nuint to LPARAM/WPARAM

Others:

• #305: Fix memory leak in testing
• #300: Generate whole namespaces on-demand
• #295: Include the period in the full-sentence link in XML docs
• #272: Print helpful errors/warnings on generation failures
• #221: Generator may fail with "Could not load file or assembly 'YamlDotNet..."
• #265: Add dependencies to package.
• #258: Add IsNull property on pointer-sized structs
• #260: Add NOTICE.txt file to package
• #241: Add [SupportedOSPlatform] to friendly overloads
• #236: Bump Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0

This list of changes was auto generated.

v0.1.422-beta

Changes:

Fixes:

• #49: Missing docs for IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32

Enhancements:

• #186: BOOL.Value should be typed as int
• #102: When an enum value is requested in NativeMethods.txt, emit an error that mentions the name of the containing enum
• #41: Generated methods should have DefaultDllImportSearchPathsAttribute
• #22: Add documentation for constants
• #152: Add extension methods to help index into inline arrays on downlevel TFMs
• #185: Update metadata to 10.0.19041.5-preview.68
• #194: Generate COM interfaces, delegates, and managed structures
• #177: Emit enums based on value names, and emit warning
• #172: Add Length property to inline arrays
• #173: Add ability to generate enum declarations from docs
• #159: Add doc comments to "unsafe" AsSpan() and indexer members
• #157: Add extension methods so more runtimes can index into inline arrays
• #140: New codegen for inline array fields

Others:

See More

• #175: Fix doc collection for structs ending in 32 or 64
• #176: Add DefaultDllImportSearchPathsAttribute to each extern method
• #174: Always use BOOL instead of bool in native function pointers

This list of changes was auto generated.