This is mainly a reminder for me so that I can read this when I get back from Jackson Hole…
Dino Viehland has written some interesting looking blog posts on how to implement the thread/task and syncrhonisation host managers for a hosted CLR. Note that this is all “Whidbey beta 1” stuff so, well, your milage may vary…
I’m still playing with hosting the CLR in C++ (using “Customizing the Microsoft.NET Framework Common Language Runtime” by Steven Pratschner as my guide)… It’s an interesting journey but, once again, I wonder who makes the important technical decisions at Microsoft and how they sleep at night ;) .
I’m currently playing with the ICLRRuntimeHost interface. This lets you load the CLR into your unmanaged process and gives you a remarkable amount of control over how the CLR that you’re hosting operates.
I’m playing around with hosting the CLR in C++ at present and have come across a bit of crapness in the mscoree.h file…
#if (_MSC_VER < 1300 || _WIN32_WINNT < 0x0500) typedef VOID ( __stdcall *WAITORTIMERCALLBACK )( PVOID __MIDL_0011, BOOL __MIDL_0012); #endif // (_MSC_VER < 1300 || _WIN32_WINNT < 0x0500) This effectively says, if you’re using VC6 or you’re compiling for less than v5 of Windows NT then you don’t have this typedef so here it is… Unfortunately, if you’re compiling with VC6 but you’re using the platform SDK then you already have that typedef in winbase.
