CallingConvention Enumeration
Specifies the calling convention required to call methods implemented in unmanaged code.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() ![]() | Winapi | This member is not actually a calling convention, but instead uses the default platform calling convention. For example, on Windows the default is StdCall and on Windows CE.NET it is Cdecl. |
| Cdecl | The caller cleans the stack. This enables calling functions with varargs, which makes it appropriate to use for methods that accept a variable number of parameters, such as Printf. | |
| StdCall | The callee cleans the stack. This is the default convention for calling unmanaged functions with platform invoke. | |
| ThisCall | The first parameter is the this pointer and is stored in register ECX. Other parameters are pushed on the stack. This calling convention is used to call methods on classes exported from an unmanaged DLL. | |
| FastCall | This calling convention is not supported. |
Always use the CallingConvention enumeration rather than the CALLCONV enumeration to specify a calling convention in managed code. The latter exists only for the sake of COM definitions. The CallingConvention enumeration is used by DllImportAttribute and several classes in System.Reflection.Emit to dynamically emit platform invoke signatures.
The following example demonstrates how to apply the Cdecl calling convention, which you must use because the stack is cleaned up by the caller.
Imports System Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Public Class LibWrap ' Visual Basic does not support varargs, so all arguments must be ' explicitly defined. CallingConvention.Cdecl must be used since the stack ' is cleaned up by the caller. ' int printf( const char *format [, argument]... ) <DllImport("msvcrt.dll", CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Cdecl)> _ Overloads Shared Function printf( _ ByVal format As String, ByVal i As Integer, ByVal d As Double) As Integer End Function <DllImport("msvcrt.dll", CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode, CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Cdecl)> _ Overloads Shared Function printf( _ ByVal format As String, ByVal i As Integer, ByVal s As String) As Integer End Function End Class 'LibWrap Public Class App Public Shared Sub Main() LibWrap.printf(ControlChars.CrLf + "Print params: %i %f", 99, _ 99.99) LibWrap.printf(ControlChars.CrLf + "Print params: %i %s", 99, _ "abcd") End Sub 'Main End Class 'App
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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
