Is there a way to create C# objects and call methods from unmanaged C++, but without using COM Iterop? I am looking for something like JNI (but for .Net), where you can manually create the VM, create objects, etc.
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Is there a way to create C# objects and call methods from unmanaged C++, but without using COM Iterop? I am looking for something like JNI (but for .Net), where you can manually create the VM, create objects, etc.
If you are using C++/CLI then you can interact directly with both the managed world and unmanaged code, so interop is trivial.
You can also host the CLR yourself, and whilst the hosting API is COM based, you can then create any managed object. The process isn’t a difficult as it sounds as a few API calls encapsulate a lot of functionality. There is a lot of info online, for example the MSDN documentation on ‘Hosting the Common Language Runtime‘.