Wrappers: Use Our ManWrap Library to Get the Best of .NET in Native C Code -- MSDN Magazine, April 2005

Wrappers: Use Our ManWrap Library to Get the Best of .NET in Native C Code -- MSDN Magazine, April 2005: "Managed Extensions for C make it possible to mix native and managed code freely, even in the same module. Wow, life is good! Compiling with /clr, however, has consequences you may not want. It forces multithreading and dispenses with some useful runtime checks. It interferes with MFC's DEBUG_NEW, and some .NET Framework classes may conflict with your namespace. And what if you have a legacy application that uses an older version of the compiler that doesn't support /clr? Isn't there some way to reach into the Framework without the Managed Extensions? Yes!

In this article, I'll show you how to wrap Framework classes in a native way so you can use them in any C /MFC app without /clr. As my test case, I'll wrap the regex classes from the .NET Framework in a DLL and implement three MFC programs using it. You can use RegexWrap.dll to add regular expressions to your own C /MFC applications, or use my ManWrap tools to wrap your own favorite Framework classes."

Good Article from MSDN Magazine