How to: Associate Delegates to Unmanaged Functions

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To associate a delegate with a native function, you must wrap the native function in a managed type, and declare the function to be invoked through PInvoke.

Example

Code

// mcppv2_del_to_umnangd_func.cpp
// compile with: /clr
#pragma unmanaged
extern "C" void printf(const char*, ...);
class A {
public:
   static void func(char* s) {
      printf(s);
   }
};

#pragma managed
public delegate void func(char*); 

ref class B {
   A* ap;

public:
   B(A* ap):ap(ap) {}
   void func(char* s) {
      ap->func(s); 
   }
};

int main() {
   A* a = new A;
   B^ b = gcnew B(a);
   func^ f = gcnew func(b, &B::func);
   f("hello");
   delete a;
}

Output

hello

See Also

Reference

delegate