Re: passing from C# to C++

From:
"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" <cpdaniel_remove_this_and_nospam@mvps.org.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:11:52 -0700
Message-ID:
<#L3SzU5zGHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
eladla wrote:

eladla wrote:

I have a struct that holds two vectors and one float.
How do I pass if from C# to C++?


Show some code. There's no such class as "vector" in C#, so it's
not clear what you're actually describing here.


I`m sorry about that...sitting infrot of the computer for 20Hs got to
me... What I was going to say was:
I have a struct in a C++ DLL defined as:

__declspec(dllexport) struct neighbour

     {

           float correlation;

           vector<int> items;

           vector<int> ratings;

     };

I want to create an equivalent struct in C# that I can then create an
array (or vector or whatever) of and pass to a function call to the
unmanaged c++ dll.
What I want to know is, what data types do I use to create the struct
in c#? What data type do I need to use to create an array of this
struct? and how do I pass them in the function call?


There's no way you can create that data structure in C#. Instead, what
you'll have to do (assuming you can't modify the function that you're
wanting to call) is build a similar structure in C# and write a piece of
managed C++ that translates between the two structures.

In C#, you'd probably want something along the lines of

class Neighbor
{
    float correlation;
    List<int> items;
    List<inte> ratings;
}

HTH

-cd

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