C# Process APIs provide IntPtr needing explicit cast for HWD methods

[michael-hawker]

Was told to follow issue here from this conversation.

The C# Process APIs use the IntPtr type, for instance when trying to get the handle from a Process here.

When then making a Win32 call to something like SetForegroundWindow this needs to be explicitly cast to the generated HWD wrapper (which is unintuitive):

PInvoke.SetForegroundWindow((HWD)process.MainWindowHandle);

It'd be great if the generated methods could directly accept the IntPtr type from C# or the generated HWD helper to have an implicit converter setup to do the cast directly for the developer.

Thanks!

[mikebattista]

@AArnott I think this would be a request of the projection. The Process API referenced here is the .NET API not a Win32 API. The request is to accept IntPtr wherever HWND is accepted to avoid the (HWND) cast.

[AArnott]

Ah, I may have misunderstood the feedback. I thought the IntPtr was coming from the metadata, but I see now it's coming from a BCL type.
@michael-hawker, I'm sorry to misdirect you. I'll reply again on that discussion. Let's close this issue since there's nothing for the metadata repo to do.