Managed C++ is the version in VS2002 and VS2003. It had race conditions and other serious bugs, as well as being confusing. It’s no longer supported. In VS2005, Microsoft introduced C++/CLI, which has also been accepted as an ISO standard. It’s also supported in VS2008 and the upcoming VS2010. Both of them had the same … Read more
whether .Net Core(CoreCLR) supports C++\CLI (clr\oldsyntax) runtime environment ? As far as I know there is no plan to support C++/CLI with .NET Core. If no, what can be the possible solutions to this application work ? You can (should) provide a C API. Mono e. g. supports P/Invoke and .NET Core also supports P/Invoke … Read more
Basically, a ref class is a CLR class. It’s the equivalent of class in C#. This creates a reference type managed by the CLR. If you want to make a class that’s usable from C#, you’d normally create a ref class. (ref struct, by the way, does exactly the same thing, but with C++’s standard … Read more
or one of its dependencies That’s the usual problem, you cannot see a missing unmanaged DLL with Fuslogvw.exe. Best thing to do is to run SysInternals’ ProcMon utility. You’ll see it searching for the DLL and not find it. Profile mode in Dependency Walker can show it too.
… Could not load file or assembly ‘X’ or one of its dependencies … Most likely it fails to load another dependency. you could try to check the dependencies with a dependency walker. I.e: https://www.dependencywalker.com/ Also check your build configuration (x86 / 64) Edit: I also had this problem once when I was copying dlls … Read more
When not specified, C++ is unmanaged C++, compiled to machine code. In unmanaged C++ you must manage memory allocation manually. Managed C++ is a language invented by Microsoft, that compiles to bytecode run by the .NET Framework. It uses mostly the same syntax as C++ (hence the name) but is compiled in the same way … Read more
Have you take a look at C++/CLI? Let me give a very short example. Here is the source file from a Visual C++ -> CLR -> Class Library project. It basically get Windows username and return it. Please note that, in order to get this compiled, you have to go into project settings and mark … Read more
Don’t roll your own, use these handy (and extensible) wrappers provided by Microsoft. For example: #include <msclr\marshal_cppstd.h> System::String^ managed = “test”; std::string unmanaged = msclr::interop::marshal_as<std::string>(managed);