Generating unmanaged C++ wrappers

[Kenneth Porter]

Are there tools for automating the conversion of unmanaged C++ headers to
equivalent wrapper classes with metadata?

I've got a back-end library with no exposed inheritance, but the interface
classes are abstract and factory methods return the "real" internal
classes. I'd like to feed the DLL and public headers to a tool to
automatically generate .NET wrappers for customers using C# and VB to write
front-ends.

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

Are there tools for automating the conversion of unmanaged C++
headers to equivalent wrapper classes with metadata?

Why are you asking this on the C# group? You have unmanaged C++ code, you
need a managed C++/CLI wrapper...

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I've got a back-end library with no exposed inheritance, but the
interface classes are abstract and factory methods return the "real"
internal classes. I'd like to feed the DLL and public headers to a
tool to automatically generate .NET wrappers for customers using C#
and VB to write front-ends.

Unless the native code implements COM, it will not be entirely automatic.

[Kenneth Porter]

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rb*@nospam.nospamwrote in
news:#V**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

Why are you asking this on the C# group? You have unmanaged C++ code,
you need a managed C++/CLI wrapper...

Sorry about that, I just found the C++ group, named vc. (The comp hierarchy
has separate C and C++ sub-hierarchies, and it didn't occur that the two
languages would be merged into one group here.)