How to use method from VB6 dll in .NET?

Question

I have ActiveX VB6 DLL (have no access to its sources), and want to call method 'GetUnitInfo'

I use to import it like:

[DllImport(@"C:\Users\R\Documents\lab.dll")]
public static extern long GetUnitInfo(String strRequest, String strInfo, String strName);

But I get an exception:

Unable to find an entry point named 'GetUnitInfo' in DLL

Also I have tryied to load it:

Assembly myAssembly ;
myAssembly = Assembly.LoadFile("C:\\Users\\R\\Documents\\lab.dll");

but getting an exception

The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131018)

I have tryied to clean solution, to turn off manifest in project options, to create new manifest file, but it did not helped me...

Answer 1

Found solution, mb someone else will find useful, (this worked in my case):

1. Create .Net wrapper of VB6 ActiveX dll

   1.1 Run CMD as Administrator

   1.2 Move to .NET SDK folder - cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.1 Tools\ (in my case).

   1.3 Run - TlbImp.exe C:\path_to_old.dll /out: new.dll

2. Register ActiveX dll

2.1 Run CMD as Administrator

2.2 Run - regsvr32.exe C:\path_to_old.dll

3. Add Reference to converted dll ("new.dll") in c# project

I used to add "new.dll" reference before registering "old.dll", and was getting the following exception

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {F2D4F4E5-EEA1-46FF-A83B-A270C92DAE4B} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG))

Cleaning solution, removing reference and following steps 2,3 - helped

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