Integrate Windows Forms Into Your MFC Applications Through C++ Interop

摘要

Although the Microsoft .NET Framework was first made public almost five years ago, and version 2.0 has just recently been released, many C++ applications are still pure unmanaged code. But interest in the .NET Framework is growing rapidly among C++ developers. And for good reason: many future Windows~® APIs will be based on the .NET Framework. This is certainly true for the WinFX~® components Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, and Windows Workflow Foundation. Still, many C++ developers want to use native APIs instead of wrappers around existing APIs. Wrappers are often assumed to be buggy, slow, and less flexible. Apart from that, it would be really difficult to map huge APIs like WinFX so that they can be used from native code.