>ISTR years ago in the .Net 1.0 days I read an overview/position paper (from MS?) that touted C++ in .Net for leveraging an existing C++ code base.
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>I may be OTL about this but it looks like trying to get C++ to work with .Net has always been kludgy at best i.e. "Managed Extensions for C++" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_Extensions_for_C%2B%2B ) morphing into "C++/CLI" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI ).
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>From the latter link (emphasis mine): "
C++/CLI should be thought of as a language of its own (with a new set of keywords, for example), instead of the C++ superset-oriented Managed C++ (MC++) (whose non-standard keywords were styled like __gc or __value). Because of this, there are some major syntactic changes, especially related to the elimination of ambiguous identifiers and the addition of .NET-specific features.
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>Many conflicting syntaxes, such as the multiple versions of operator new() in MC++ have been split: in C++/CLI, .NET reference types are created with the new keyword gcnew. Also, C++/CLI has introduced the concept of generics (conceptually similar to standard C++ templates, but quite different in their implementation)."
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>Happy, happy, joy, joy.
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>Hopefully your favourite training company can help...
Don't plan to use it for any new development but I need to be able to read and understand the code in OpenFAST so I can modify it as needed for the domain for the stock exchange I'm working with. This is wildly esoteric stuff so these are wheels I do not want to have to invent. Once the feed is deserialized and decoded I am working C# and T-SQL all the way. There is a complete port called OpenFastDotNet which is a port of a Java library but there is no community, no support and it is not optimized for the kind of volume I need to handle.
I do have a consulting company that support OpenFAST so have mentoring when I need it but having spent a good deal of my career mentoring other developers I know the only way to get my money's worth on that is if I bring some of my own mental sweat equity to the table.
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- Thomas Hardy
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