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Wow, looks like we were working on the same thing the last weeks, since I published my VIX API C# library to Codeplex one day after you wrote your CodeProject article  My library basically does the same as yours, it simplifies dealing with the VIX API and makes common tasks (powering on/off, copying files) a lot easier. I also took the time and fully commented the functions (using the official documentation), so you get hints from IntelliSense while coding, which I find really helpful. Although your library implements less functions than mine (I wrapped them all...), it seems like you have the better concept when dealing with IJobs. If you want to take a look at my approach, visit http://www.codeplex.com/VixCOMWrapper and download the library  Regards, Alex |
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Hey Alex,
I've been adding features while you were away! I really think the VMWare development team should produce something like this, so hopefuly seeing multiple implementations will give them the right object model to start with. A library that is not a wrapper on top of the COM API is really the right answer, there's no need to have a COM object registered to talk to VMWare. You wouldn't need to package the VIX COM DLLs if you were to distribute anything that talks to VMWare. Heck, VMWare should give us a million bucks to share for designing it for them  If I may allow some criticism of the stuff on CodePlex: I think that your library needs to be more consistent with constructs like snapshots or shared folders: those are all objects and should be manipulated as collections. I chose not to implement methods like AddSharedFolder(name, description) - from the object model perspective you want VirtualMachine.SharedFolders.Add(new VMWareSharedFolder(name, description)), then VirtualMachine.SharedFolders reflects the changes. This also applies to snapshots and all other things that belong to the VM. Other important aspects include an active timeout - VMWare won't timeout in blocking operations. I also wanted to thank you - I learned something from your implementation - I was wondering what the right way of implementing things like Snapshot.Name is - your code helped. I also added Snapshot.Path - post. Some competition is a good thing! People should use whatever they think is best. Of course, you're welcome to give up the CodePlex library and contribute to VMWareTasks cheers dB. |
