Question

I have written a c# program that calls a c++ dll that echoes the commandline args to a file

When the c++ is called using the rundll32 command it displays the commandline args no problem, however when it is called from within the c# it doesnt.

I asked this question to try and solve my problem, but I have modified it my test environment and I think it is worth asking a new question.

Here is the c++ dll

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HANDLE hModule,
                       DWORD  ul_reason_for_call,
                       LPVOID lpReserved
                     )
{
    return TRUE;
}

extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int WINAPI CMAKEX(
    HWND hwnd,
    HINSTANCE hinst,
    LPCSTR lpszCommandLine,
    DWORD dwReserved)
{

    ofstream SaveFile("output.txt");
    SaveFile << lpszCommandLine;
    SaveFile.close();

    return 0;
}

Here is the c# app

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Net;

namespace nac
{
    class Program
    {
        [DllImport("cmakca.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
        static extern bool CMAKEX(IntPtr hwnd, IntPtr hinst, string lpszCmdLine, int nCmdShow);

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string cmdLine = @"/source_filename proxy-1.txt /backup_filename proxy.bak /DialRasEntry NULL /TunnelRasEntry DSLVPN /profile ""C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Cm\dslvpn.cmp""";
            const int SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1;
            CMAKEX(IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero, cmdLine, SW_SHOWNORMAL).ToString();
        }
    }
}

The output from the rundll32 command is

rundll32 cmakex.dll,CMAKEX /source_filename proxy-1.txt /backup_filename proxy.bak /DialRasEntry NULL /TunnelRasEntry DSLVPN /profile ""C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Cm\dslvpn.cmp"

/source_filename proxy-1.txt /backup_filename proxy.bak /DialRasEntry NULL /TunnelRasEntry DSLVPN /profile ""C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Cm\dslvpn.cmp"

however the output when the c# app runs is

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Answer 1

LPCSTR is not unicode, is it? Just use ANSI and you should be fine: CharSet = CharSet.Ansi