D vs. C#

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:41:26 +0300, Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:22:50 +0300, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> Except that .net cannot talk to C or C++ code, which are the usual languages for applications.
>
> .NET (at least C#) can call native code in DLLs. Unlike Java, you can also define the exact layout of structures, and thus share data structures with native code.

Here's some documentation on it:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288468(VS.71).aspx

Note that you can also specify one of several calling conventions: Cdecl, Stdcall, Thiscall (which allows some basic OOP simulation) and Winapi (same as Stdcall on Windows).

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