Dan McKinley

I wrote a small program that generates xml from a type library. The type library can be a .tlb, or embedded as a resource in a PE (.dll, .ocx, .exe, etc).

I'm using this as a build tool–basically it's the glue that makes a big project using C#, C++, VB6, WiX and NAnt hold together.

The source can be downloaded from this link. This doesn't grab everything from the tlb, but it's pretty simple and not hard to extend.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using isvc = System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes;

namespace tlbspit
{
	class Program
	{
		[isvc.DllImport("oleaut32.dll", PreserveSig = false)]
		static extern void LoadTypeLib(
			[isvc.MarshalAs(isvc.UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string szFile,
			[isvc.MarshalAs(isvc.UnmanagedType.Interface)] ref ITypeLib pLib);

        static int Main(string[] args)
        {
            if (args.Length == 0)
            {
                Usage();
                return -1;
            }
            try
            {
                string path = string.Join(" ", args);
                using (XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(Console.Out))
                {
                    w.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
                    Run(path, w);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
                return -1;
            }
            return 0;
        }

        static void Run(string path, XmlWriter w)
        {
            w.WriteStartElement("library");
            ITypeLib tlb = null;
            LoadTypeLib(path, ref tlb);
            WriteTlbAttribs(tlb, w);
            int ct = tlb.GetTypeInfoCount();
            for (int i = 0; i < ct; i++)
            {
                ITypeInfo t = null;
                tlb.GetTypeInfo(i, out t);
                WriteType(t, w);
            }
            w.WriteEndElement();
        }

		static void WriteType(ITypeInfo t, XmlWriter w)
		{
			w.WriteStartElement("type");
			ITypeInfo2 t2 = (ITypeInfo2)t;
			TYPEKIND k;
			t2.GetTypeKind(out k);
			w.WriteAttributeString("name", NameOf(t));
			w.WriteElementString("guid", GuidOf(t));
			w.WriteElementString("kind", k.ToString());
			w.WriteEndElement();	// type
		}

		static unsafe string GuidOf(ITypeInfo t)
		{
			IntPtr pAttr = IntPtr.Zero;
			try
			{
				t.GetTypeAttr(out pAttr);
				TYPEATTR* attr = (TYPEATTR*)pAttr;
				Guid g = attr->guid;
				return g.ToString();
			}
			finally
			{
				if (pAttr != IntPtr.Zero)
					t.ReleaseTypeAttr(pAttr);
			}
		}

		static string NameOf(ITypeInfo t)
		{
			string name = null, doc = null, hlpfile = null;
			int i = 0;
			t.GetDocumentation(-1, out name, out doc, out i, out hlpfile);
			return name;
		}

		static string NameOf(ITypeLib tlb)
		{
			string name = null, doc = null, hlp = null;
			int hc = 0;
			tlb.GetDocumentation(-1, out name, out doc, out hc, out hlp);
			return name;
		}

		static unsafe void WriteTlbAttribs(ITypeLib tlb, XmlWriter w)
		{
			IntPtr pAttr = IntPtr.Zero;
			tlb.GetLibAttr(out pAttr);
			try
			{
				TYPELIBATTR* attr = (TYPELIBATTR*)pAttr;
				w.WriteAttributeString("guid", attr->guid.ToString());
				w.WriteAttributeString("version",
					string.Format("{0}.{1}", attr->wMajorVerNum, attr->wMinorVerNum));
				w.WriteAttributeString("name", NameOf(tlb));
			}
			finally
			{
				if (pAttr != IntPtr.Zero)
					tlb.ReleaseTLibAttr(pAttr);
			}
		}

		static void Usage()
		{
			Console.WriteLine(@"
TLBSPIT by Dan McKinley

  Writes out (some) of the attributes of a type library as xml to
  standard output.

  Usage: tlbspit.exe <type library file>

  The file can be a dll/ocx/etc. or a tlb. It can optionally include a
  slash followed by the number of a resource.

  Examples:
	tlbspit foo.tlb
	tlbspit bar.dll\3
");
		}
	}
}