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[Francois Hamel]

I'm not too experienced with C# or with the .NET platform in general. I'd like to know if it's easy enough to call unmanaged code writen in C++ in C#?

And what happens when you have to deal with pointers and char* strings as parameters instead of managed C# references and native strings?

Because right now I'd like to implement my "engine" in C++ and use C# for any GUI stuff I might need like a level editor, material editor, particle editor, etc....

Anyone got some experience to share?

[anubis]

it's possible to mix managed and unmanaged code in c++. the unmanaged code that is written in c++ also gets compiled into IL (at least in the current .NET version. i'm uncertain wether anything changed about that in .NET 2.0). the c++ code can then be called from C# as any other .NET code. C# does support pointers although you have to specifically tell the compiler to allow it.

for reference : http://www.ondotnet..../03/mcppp2.html

[bladder]

you can check the following post:

http://www.devmaster...?showtopic=1663

Exact same question was asked.