Tag: Windows Forms

  • Mixing Managed and Native Types in C++ / CLI

    Brief Introduction

    C++/CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) was designed to bring C++ to .NET as a means of developing managed code applications. Specifically it helps simplify writing managed code when using C++.

    Suppose you are writing a WinForms application in Microsoft Visual Studio with a view to using C++ to write managed code. You may prefer to reuse existing libraries and headers written in C and C++ but are a little unsure as to how this is achieved exactly.
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  • Implementing Kruskal’s Algorithm in C#

    This post is essentially a blatant lifting of Omar Gamil’s CodeProject article on the same subject. I have been using the project as means of getting into C# programming and using things like Windows Forms etc in Visual Studio environments for the first time. (more…)