Refering to Class, Types, and Functions from Dlls

[safaci2000]

Hi all,

I have a DLL that I need to access. I've managed to load it and
unload it successfully. The compiler is happy no complaints or
warning.

I need to refer to a class object that was defined in the class, and
I'm not sure how to go about it.

I understand that if I need to call a function I'd need to call
GetProcAddress(hDll,"funcFoo"); that would return a pointer to the
function and then I'd use the pointer to address the function inside
of my program.

what would I need to do to refer to the Dll, types.

If I was in a regular C++ program, I would be doing something like

ClassFoo.Host myhost; // assuming Host if an internal class, is
public and is well defined.

How would I be able to do that if my class Foo is defined inside the
dll?

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Samir

[Mattias Sjögren]

>How would I be able to do that if my class Foo is defined inside the

>dll?

You can't directly use native types from managed code. You have to
declare a corresponding managed type first with a compatible layout.
Mattias

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