"nickdu" <nicknospamdu@community.nospam> wrote in message
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> I've been reading through the MSDN docs and just can't seem to find an
> answer
> to my question. What I'm trying to find out is whether it's possible to
> introduce C# into our C++ application. I don't want to do this via a DLL
> but
> instead would like the C# code to be statically linked in the executable.
> Is
> this possible?
>
> What I'm having a hard time figuring out is how the C++ code would know
> about the C# classes. In the unmanaged world you simply include a header
> file for the external types. If what I want to do is possible how would
> the
> C++ code be able to new the C# class? How would it know about it? Is
> there
> some pragma statement?
>
> In the research I've done it seems as if I should be able to compile a CS
> file to a .netmodule and then link it with my C++ code. Is this not the
> case?
> --
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> nicknospamdu@community.nospam
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""Walter Wang [MSFT]"" wrote:

> Thanks G Himangi for your informative input.
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Here's a quick sample on how to achieve this (based on this blog
> http://blogs.msdn.com/texblog/archive/2007/04/05/linking-native-c-into-c-app
> lications.aspx, it's linking native c++ into C#, what we needed is the
> opposite but steps are similar):
>
>
> 1) Create a C++ file clrcode.cpp:
>
>
> using namespace System;
> using namespace ClassLibrary1;
>
> void main()
> {
> Class1^ c1 = gcnew Class1();
> c1->Test();
> }
>
>
>
> 2) Create a C# class class1.cs:
>
> using System;
> using System.Collections.Generic;
> using System.Text;
>
>
> namespace ClassLibrary1
> {
> public class Class1
> {
> public void Test()
> {
> Console.WriteLine("Test");
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> 3) Start VS2005 environment command prompt:
>
> csc /target:module Class1.cs
> cl /clr /LN /MD clrcode.cpp /FU Class1.netmodule
>
> link /LTCG /CLRIMAGETYPE:IJW /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE
> /ASSEMBLYMODULE:clrcode.netmodule /OUT:MixedApp.exe clrcode.obj
> Class1.netmodule
>
> MixedApp
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Regards,
> Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
> Microsoft Online Community Support
>
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