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A month or two back, I had to write a launcher app that would allow/disallow the running of select installers based on various conditions and config files. Since this would run prior to any of the MSIs, and thus couldn’t assume the presence of any dependencies like .NET or the VC++ runtime, I wrote it [...]

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In my previous blog entry, I talked about extending marshal_as to support other type conversions in addition to the default ones. But the examples I used didn’t need to handle resource deallocation. When you have type conversions which require explicit resource deallocation, you have to handle it slightly differently. As an example I have written [...]

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A couple of blog entries ago, I had written about the marshal_as library that is introduced in Orcas and how it’s very useful for mixed-mode string conversions. While the built-in functionality only allows string conversions, it’s also possible to extend marshal_as functionality to support other type conversions. As an example of doing this, I have [...]

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The need to marshal between native and managed types is a very frequent scenario in mixed-mode programming. This is specially true when it comes to strings – when you’ve got MFC strings, COM strings, standard C++ strings and CLR strings and need to convert between those types. In fact that’s what prompted me to write [...]

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