[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: A CHARACTER or LONGCHAR variable passed as an OUTPUT parameter to a DLL cannot be the U

[Laura Stern]

This response came across my email, but I don't see it here: >This is a C# dll and is not handling call made as a standard dll. We are now using it as a .Net assembly. Oh! You can't call a .NET assembly from the ABL as if it were a C dll! You can only use .NET objects from the ABL directly as objects. What object does this method belong to? You'd have to NEW the object to get an object reference, and then call its method. e.g. myObj = NEW ( ). myObj: ( ). Or if the method is static, you call it using the "type-name syntax", e.g.: : ( ).

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