"Dave Farquharson" <gamerfarquharson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find good information on hosting the CLR from my native c++
> program. I'm successfully using CorBindToRuntimeEx to host the CLR and
> executing functions in a test CLR assembly using
> ExecuteInDefaultAppDomain. That's all great, but my problem is that the
> execute function seems rather limited. It accepts a string argument and
> returns an int, and that's it.
>
> So my question is, how can more information about state be passed back and
> forth between the assembly and the hosting program? I've exercised my
> search engine pretty heavily looking for examples and I keep thinking,
> there must be a way to share data! Anyone successfully done this or have
> info about it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Dave
>

"Chris Mullins [MVP - C#]" <cmullins@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> There's a book out that goes into great detail on hosting the CLR:
>
> "Customizing the Microsoft® .NET Framework Common Language Runtime"
> http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/6895.aspx
>
> --
> Chris Mullins
>
>
> "Dave Farquharson" <gamerfarquharson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OzxiImtKIHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to find good information on hosting the CLR from my native
>> c++ program. I'm successfully using CorBindToRuntimeEx to host the CLR
>> and executing functions in a test CLR assembly using
>> ExecuteInDefaultAppDomain. That's all great, but my problem is that the
>> execute function seems rather limited. It accepts a string argument and
>> returns an int, and that's it.
>>
>> So my question is, how can more information about state be passed back
>> and forth between the assembly and the hosting program? I've exercised my
>> search engine pretty heavily looking for examples and I keep thinking,
>> there must be a way to share data! Anyone successfully done this or have
>> info about it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -Dave
>>
>
>

<Keith Hall> wrote in message news:2007122223157keith.hall@t-online.de...
> Hello Dave,
>
> Have you yet looked at defining "#pragma managed" and "#pragma unmanaged"
> sections of code in C++? You can use these to generate a "mixed-mode" DLL
> which you can then load from C++.
>
> This approach seems to work fine, although apparently NOT when the calling
> C++ is in a native lib loaded by Java JNI. Am trying to find out why...
>
> Regards,
>
> Keith
>
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