SharpShellNativeBridge

SharpShellNativeBridge

The SharpShellNativeBridge is a Win32 library that is used to host APIs that cannot be directly hosted in the .NET SharpShell library. At runtime, the core SharpShell Assembly loads this native bridge into memory and makes calls to it.

• Building

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This project uses the Windows 10 SDK. Windows 8.1 is no longer supported. However, if you install legacy SDKs you can re-target this project and manually build the bridge if needed.

SharpShell is currently developed in Visual Studio 2019, and can be built using the Community Edition.

In order to maximize compatibility, we do not use the latest version of each SDK. The following components are needed:

• Windows Universal CRT SDK
• Windows 10 SDK
• Windows Universal C Runtime

Building

As long as the correct components have be installed for Visual Studio, you should be able to just open the main SharpShellNativeBridge.sln solution to build.

To build using Powershell run:

./build.ps1

The CI/CD processes also use the ./build.ps1 script to build the project.

Be aware of the following nuances of the build process.

• SharpNativeBridge should be built in x64 mode. When successful, the x64 build will trigger a x32 build, and both 32/64 bit binaries are copied to the artifacts/build/SharpNativeBridge folder.
• The core SharpShell assembly no longer takes the latest build of the native bridge automatically - you must build the project and embed the files in ../SharpShell/SharpShell/NativeBridge to update the native bridge