xcorenode

Introducing xcore

What is xcore

xcore is a Node.js® plugin enabling the use of .NET netstandard libraries with javascript. netstandard is a new specification by Microsoft representing a set of .NET API which can be used across many .NET implementations such as .NET Framework and .NET Core. - https://github.com/dotnet/standard

Basically xcore allows any Node.js script to use .NET code. xcore is entirely authored by Raffaele Rialdi - @raffaeler

Please refer to the repo github issues to report bugs, ask questions or suggestions.

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Install

npm install xcorenode

xcorenode is one of the flavors of xcore. In the future I will publish the Electron variant.

Load and initialize xcore

var xcore = require(__dirname + '\\node_modules\\xcorenode\\xcorenode.node');
var netPath = __dirname + "\\node_modules\\xcorenode\\binw10x64";
// load the dll (initializer is optional), then load the class OrderManager (full qualified name)
xcore.initialize(netPath, "SampleLibrary.dll", "SampleLibrary.Initializer");

Load the .net metadata. This operation is done for just the entry-point class of a graph.

xcore.loadClass("SampleLibrary.OrderSample.    OrderManager, SampleLibrary");

Create an instance of the .NET class

var om = new xcore.OrderManager("raf");

Call methods

console.log(om.Add("Hello, ", "world"));

Walk the graph. Metadata for the Order class is loaded automatically

console.log(om.SelectedOrder.Name);

Asynchronous calls

om.AddAsync(2, 3, function(res){
console.log(res);

});

Subscribing events

var cookie = om.addEventHandler("OrderReady", function(sender, args){
    console.log("sender: " + sender.SelectedOrderName, " args:" + args.Name);
    });

Unsubcscribe events

om.removeEventHandler("OrderReady", cookie);

Much more is supported!

Please refer to the github repo for more info.