Unmanaged to managed callback, and GCHandle / gcroot

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DaTurk

Hi,

I'm coding up an application that has a native c++ layer,
asynchronously calling callback in a CLI layer.

We originally did this with static inline methods in the CLI layer,
but this solution only works with singleton objects. So I have to
explore other solutions.

So beside pinning pointers, I've been looking at GCHandle. I was
looking at this example from MSDN.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/367eeye0(VS.80).aspx

They have two examples, one where the GCHandle has class scope, and
then another where it is static, and it's global.

My problem is that I need each CLI instance of this object to have
it's own GCHandle to it's own calback into the native world, will a
instance variable of GCHandle cover this?
 
DaTurk said:
Hi,

I'm coding up an application that has a native c++ layer,
asynchronously calling callback in a CLI layer.

We originally did this with static inline methods in the CLI layer,
but this solution only works with singleton objects. So I have to
explore other solutions.

So beside pinning pointers, I've been looking at GCHandle. I was
looking at this example from MSDN.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/367eeye0(VS.80).aspx

They have two examples, one where the GCHandle has class scope, and
then another where it is static, and it's global.

My problem is that I need each CLI instance of this object to have
it's own GCHandle to it's own calback into the native world, will a
instance variable of GCHandle cover this?
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Just use gcroot instead of GCHandle, it takes care of all the details. You
can treat it like a T^ (tracking reference) except it's a member of a native
class instead of a managed class.
 
Just use gcroot instead of GCHandle, it takes care of all the details. You
can treat it like a T^ (tracking reference) except it's a member of a native
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I can't use gcroot, because I'm using this reference in a unmanaged
class i.e. #pragma unmanaged. And so it doesn't recognize the CLI
delegate reference.
 
DaTurk said:
I can't use gcroot, because I'm using this reference in a unmanaged
class i.e. #pragma unmanaged. And so it doesn't recognize the CLI
delegate reference.
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Your shim will have to be #pragma managed, native class I believe (not ref
class).
 
Your shim will have to be #pragma managed, native class I believe (not ref
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I can't though. IT has to be a pragma unmanaged, because the classes
are callback classes that get activated via a strait c++ third party
orb.
 
DaTurk said:
I can't though. IT has to be a pragma unmanaged, because the classes
are callback classes that get activated via a strait c++ third party
orb.
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Does this third-party code generator create source code, or binaries? If
source code, no problem, compile with /clr and you can use unmanaged classes
all day. If binaries, then you have bigger problems than .NET
compatibility -- to wit, lockin to a particular compiler version and
particular compile options.
 
Um, I'm not entirely sure about code generation. We're talking about
CORBA here, all I know is I pass these "callback" c++ #pragma
unmanaged classes to the POA_MANAGER, and it "activates" them so that
I can use them to receive callbacks from the ORB. So, I'm not sure if
that explains it really. But because I'm plugging these classes into
a black box, third party, ORB magic thingy .... I'm reluctant to mix
too much tech.
 
DaTurk said:
Um, I'm not entirely sure about code generation. We're talking about
CORBA here, all I know is I pass these "callback" c++ #pragma
unmanaged classes to the POA_MANAGER, and it "activates" them so that
I can use them to receive callbacks from the ORB. So, I'm not sure if
that explains it really. But because I'm plugging these classes into
a black box, third party, ORB magic thingy .... I'm reluctant to mix
too much tech.
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What exactly do you give the manager? Source code? Binary interface
pointers?
 
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