Thoughts from Mirality

In one of the projects I’m working on I hit a fairly nasty problem involving (as might be obvious from the title) both AppDomains and unmanaged code calling back into managed code. But first, a little background.

It all started with an unmanaged C++ class library. We’ve been using it for a while from other unmanaged C++ applications, but since we’ve been writing most new applications in C#.NET, the time had come to bring the library (kicking and screaming) into the .NET world. Naturally, the way forward was to write a compatibility layer in C++.NET, thereby taking advantage of its IJW framework (which makes C++ the best .NET language to use to interface with native code). (.NET 2.0, of course. Don’t even get me started about some of the problems interfacing native & managed code in 1.x.) Continue reading Unmanaged callbacks across AppDomains