I was interested in trying to figure out how to use the .net framework with C++, but cannot find documentation anywhere, everything I find points to C#. Does anyone know off hand any locations where I could find documentation.
Also, googling for the mscorlib.dll didn't turn up any information either.
I have been googling that and like I said all it turns up is a bunch of C# documentation.
lafferjm wrote:
I have been googling that and like I said all it turns up is a bunch of C# documentation.
Look at the third search result.
Ultimate Dev'r wrote:
lafferjm wrote:
I have been googling that and like I said all it turns up is a bunch of C# documentation.
Look at the third search result.
Hell, the first search result works too.
@lafferjm: MS has a version of C++ that runs in .NET. It is C++ CLR, and it has some syntax changes from pure C++. If you want pure C++ to call .NET stuff, then you have to do an unmanaged C++ call to managed C++, or you can use COM.
The real question is why do you want to use the .NET framework from C++?
The only good thing about .NET is C#. Using it with C++ is just silly.
Kllrnohj wrote:
Ultimate Dev'r wrote:
lafferjm wrote:
I have been googling that and like I said all it turns up is a bunch of C# documentation.
Look at the third search result.
Hell, the first search result works too.
@lafferjm: MS has a version of C++ that runs in .NET. It is C++ CLR, and it has some syntax changes from pure C++. If you want pure C++ to call .NET stuff, then you have to do an unmanaged C++ call to managed C++, or you can use COM.
The real question is why do you want to use the .NET framework from C++?
No idea i just do.
@foamy: The only thing about c# though from some samples i have seen it looks a lot like java and I don't want to mix the two together.
lafferjm wrote:
No idea i just do.
@foamy: The only thing about c# though from some samples i have seen it looks a lot like java and I don't want to mix the two together.
No, C# is a good language. Java is utterly retarded. C# is much closer to C++ than Java.
Also, if you don't know why you want to do something then you shouldn't do it.
lafferjm wrote:
You do realize you just tried to use "Hello, World!" as evidence to support your claim, right? Of course there are *SOME* syntactic similarities, both are derived from C's syntax and both are OO languages. The two languages are very, very different.
C# is by far my favorite language, and I wouldn't go near Java unless I was getting paid. Your 1 line program may look similar, but it doesn't go much farther than that.
C++/CLI is probably what you're looking for, but it's a pretty ugly language to work with. If you have an existing unmanaged API and wish to wrap it up for use in .NET, it's a good choice (see SlimDX for example) but if you want to write a new app that is mostly managed code I'd steer well clear of it.
See
here for comparisons between C#/C++ and C#/Java.
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