A collection of .NET wrappers for other (3rd party) libraries.

The LibWraps project is designed to support, and make accessible, the most commonly used functionality found in other 3rd party libraries. The wrappers are very lightweight and provide a simpler facade to the complexities of an underlying library.

Note that, in order to develop with some of the projects, you will need to have a reference to the underlying library in addition to the LibWraps library. This is because a lightweight wrapper may expose underlying types as function parameters or function return values.

All projects exist in the liquicode.LibWraps namespace and each exports a single static class that is used to invoke underlying functionality (e.g. Wraps_Ghostscript).

The LibWraps source code can be used for ideas on how to interact with various libraries. The NUnit test project(s) (when I make them) can be used to for ideas on how to interact with the LibWraps objects.

For convenience, a copy of the 3rd party distribution files are located under the _references folder. This makes it easy for you to download, compile, and work with LibWraps without having to track down all of the dependent distributions yourself. You are, however, encouraged to do so for these reasons:

• Update the underlying code base.
• Resolve issues when working with LibWraps and the underlying libraries.
• Gain insight into other library features that are not in LibWraps.
• Implement other library features that are not in LibWraps.
• To generally honor those who have worked so hard to bring you the coolness.

Every effort is made to give credit to individual authors and to clearly identify who wrote which code. Please let me know if I have made any errors or omissions. My goal is to illuminate rather than obfuscate.

This project wraps the NTwain API found in the soukoku-ntwain project available here:

• https://bitbucket.org/soukoku/ntwain
• https://bitbucket.org/soukoku/ntwain/downloads

See also: _references/NTwain/NTwain.md

Functionality in this library is accessed via the static class Wraps_NTwain.

NTwain is a wrapper around the Windows Twain API. (So, Wraps_NTwain is a wrapper of a wrapper). I decided to wrap this library in order to expose the primary functionality of capturing images from scanners and cameras. There is a bit of Twain engine logic going on behind the scenes which you don't need to worry about if all you want to do is scan a document.

This project can be deployed with the traditional XCopy deployment approach.

This project requires a minimum .NET version of 2.0.

You will need to deploy these files:

• liquicode.LibWraps.Wraps_NTwain.Net35.dll
• NTwain.dll

This section related to both of these LibWraps projects:

• liquicode.LibWraps.Wraps_Ghostscript.Net20.x86
• liquicode.LibWraps.Wraps_Ghostscript.Net20.x64

These projects provide a 32-bit and 64-bit wrapper for the Ghostscript DLL:

• http://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

See also: _references/Ghostscript/Ghostscript.md

Functionality in this library is accessed via the static class Wraps_Ghostscript.

The Ghostscript DLL uses a command-line like invocation which can be a little awkward to use. The Wraps_Ghostcript class makes it easier to do a few simple things with the Ghostscript DLL.

This project can be deployed with the traditional XCopy deployment approach.

This project requires a minimum .NET version of 3.5.

You will need to deploy these files:

• For 32-bit deployments:
  • liquicode.LibWraps.Wraps_Ghostscript.Net20.x86.dll
  • gsdll32.dll
• For 64-bit deployments:
  • liquicode.LibWraps.Wraps_Ghostscript.Net20.x64.dll
  • gsdll64.dll