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copied!<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379617%28VS.80%29.aspx#vs05cplus_topic12" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C++: The Most Powerful Language for .NET Framework Programming</a></p> <p>I was about to approach a project that needed to marshal structured data across the C++/C# boundary, but I found what could be a better way (especially if you know C++ and like learning new programming languages). If you have access to Visual Studio 2005 or above you might consider using C++/CLI rather than marshaling. It basically allows you to create this magic hybrid .NET/native class library that's 100% compatible with C# (as if you had written everything in C#, for the purposes of consuming it in another C# project) that is also 100% compatible with C and/or C++. In your case you could write a C++/CLI wrapper that marshaled the data from C++ in memory to CLI in memory types.</p> <p>I've had pretty good luck with this, using pure C++ code to read and write out datafiles (this could be a third party library of some kind, even), and then my C++/CLI code converts (copies) the C++ data into .NET types, in memory, which can be consumed directly as if I had written the read/write library in C#. For me the only barrier was syntax, since you have to learn the CLI extensions to C++. I wish I'd had StackOverflow to ask syntax questions, back when I was learning this!</p> <p>In return for trudging through the syntax, you learn probably the most powerful programming language imaginable. Think about it: the elegance and sanity of C# and the .NET libraries, and the low level and native library compatibility of C++. You wouldn't want to write all your projects in C++/CLI but it's great for getting C++ data into C#/.NET projects. It "just works."</p> <p>Tutorial:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mcpp/cppcliintro01.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mcpp/cppcliintro01.aspx</a></li> </ul>

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