Connecting C++ to C#

Question

I've been writing a program in C++ and noticed there is a library in C# that someone else wrote that I would like to link in to my code.... but I'm not sure how to do that. Can someone suggest something? Doubt this matters, but I'm using Windows 7 with MSVC2010.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can try compiling your C++ program in C++/CLI mode. Then the compiler will produce a .NET executable which can create C# objects and use their methods.

C++/CLI is discussed here: C++/CLI

Answer 2

If you're familiar with COM you could access the .NET library through COM . If the library doesn't provide COM interop out of the box you could write a wrapper around it using C# and expose that through COM.

If you're going to pull in a .NET library you should be aware that it requires a .NET runtime which may take up valuable resources. If you ware building the application in C++ for performance reasons, maybe you're better off porting the parts of the library you need to C++.