Best Practices for Wrapping Native Code
At our talk on Framework Design Guidelines at the PDC , Krzysztof and I were asked about resources for wrapping a native code library in a nice managed code framework. This is an extremely common pattern. Organizations frequently have large "heritage" investments in C\C++\COM code and now they need to expose that functionality is way that is productive and familiar to .NET developers. Wrapping the native functionality in a well-designed managed library maximizes the productivity of the breadth of .NET developers. I promised to blog a few resources on how to best accomplish this. Jesse Kaplan recent PDC talk is relevant: Managed and Native Code Interoperability: Best Practices CLR Inside Out: Marshaling
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