Recently I've found myself stumbling around some C++/CLI code. C++ is a language which I learned years ago and never really worked with seriously, so I've been cursing and moaning as I worked. Strange for me to go back to a (partially) unmanaged environment now, with all sorts of assumptions that I have...

Today, I had a very tight deadline to achieve a very simple task: pass a managed .NET string to an API function that expects a null-terminated char*. Trivial, you would expect? Unfortunately it wasn't. My first though was to do the pinning trick that I mentioned in my last post, but in this case I needed...

In this part we will look at the differences between what the C++/CLI compiler generates and that the C# compiler generates with regards to MSIL. We won't be creating any MSIL applications this time, but rather we will be analyzing the MSIL. C++/CLI I really like C++/CLI, it brings the best of both worlds...

Another minor detail that bit me for a few minutes today. I'm posting this so I'll see it and remember, and possibly lodge it in other people's consciousness. Using Visual Studio 2005, adding an existing .cs file to a C# project will cause a copy of that file to be created in the project directory. If...

Today, I pushed the release button on a little project I've been doing over on CodePlex entitled Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) . The story of the project is to basically go ahead and without looking at the .NET source create custom implementations of some of the stuff in the System.Collections...

A simple macro to change the Target Framework for a project from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, hacked together in a few minutes. This will fail for C++/CLI projects, and possibly VB.NET projects (haven't checked). Works fine for regular C# projects, as well as web projects:   For Each proj As Project In...