Yeah sort of, we have gotten the Ultimate Grid from Dundas Software ( it is totally awesome and beats all the other grids we have evaluated hands down ) and it is written in VC++. We are re-writting our whole VFP application and started planning it in VC++/MFC and SQL Server and are now moving to .NET/SQL Server 2000. The grid connects to an ADO source rather painlessly. I have converted most of the basic code over to managed C++ and so far the basic functionality still works through ADO. Second step was to try and use ADO.NET to connect to the grid datasource instead of the old ADO call. I have the ADO.NET class written in C# down to where I load the DataAdapter and I want to call it from the managed C++ code, but just can't seem to get it right. The grid code calls a function to bind the datasource to the grid and passes the address of the ADO object it created as a parameter.

What research I have done I concur with you and I am thinking it can only be called as a COM object. We were hoping for a more seamless way of crossing between languages. I thought that was the premise of the CLR unless I am missing something.

Thanks,
MLW