Hydra for interop with Delphi app

Hydra
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Is it possible to use .NET code written in F# with Delphi app using Hydra?

3

Hello

Yes, it is possible. Hydra can load any .NET assembly regardless of its original language (after all everything is compiled into IL) as long as this assembly exposes its API in a way expected by Hydra.

Hydra doesn’t call .NET code directly. Instead it communicates with it via plugins. Consider it as a communication surface of an assembly - Hydra doesn’t call assembly internals, instead it communicates via a set of defined API interfaces.

F.e. an assembly can expose this interface:

[Guid("8032a51c-5961-41f5-9582-c77d98ea4d93")]
public interface IVisualizerControl : IHYCrossPlatformInterface
{

    bool BarsVisible { get; set; }
    void Randomize();
    void Sinus(Double range);
}

So Delphi app will be able to call method Randomize or set property BarsVisible regardless which exactly language was used to implement this interface (ie was it C#, F#, Oxygene or even Nemerle)

Regards

4

Is Hydra using COM to talk to .NET assemblies?

5

Yes, however it doesn’t require plugins to be explicitly registered in the system as COM servers

6

What about the assemblies created using Hydra? Do they need to be registered as COM servers?

7

No. It’s all handled internally by Hydra. They don’t need to be registered system wide in the registry.

8

There is no need to register plugin or host parts of a Hydra-based application. This means that one can just copy the host and plugin app files to a completely clean host and runt them there w/o any additional actions

9

Thanks guys.

Just one more question, can I consume dotnet core libraries in Delphi using Hydra?

10

You can consume .NET Standard libraries (most of libs used in .NET Core are distributed as NuGet packages containing .NET Standard versions too).