STL for Managed C++

STL for Managed C++

• Dave M.

  pardgr8 wrote:

  After lot of struggle I realized that a STL is easy to use with the managed c++. What is needed is an unmanaged wrapper for your managed class which will hold the handle to the managed object. And functions for comparing/evaluating for the STL algorithms. I got so frustrated with the MC++ that I overlooked some of the commonly used workarounds. --P

  You can use gcroot for that.

  std::list< gcroot<String*> >

  
  
  

• Dmitry Medvedev

  Thanks for your concern, but I have plenty of time. I have started working on the allocator already.
  
  
  
  

• Dan-psg

  pardgr8 wrote:

  Is anyone interested in developing stl for Managed C++. I know that Dinkumware is coming up with STL.NET but its meant for specifically VS.NET2005. But my application is already written in VC++ 7.0 and I am not ready to port it "again" to VS.NET 2005.

  With all the resources available to Microsoft and Dinkumware, STL.NET is yet not ready, so it's obviosuly a non-trivial task. It may be simpler to port your MC++ code to C++/CLI than to write a version of STL for VS 2003. I also believe that managed templates were not available in MC++ (I might be wrong there though).

  
  
  

• engsrini

  The wrapper uses a gcroot handle. My main intention of using a wrapper is to provide something for operator & which is private to gcroot. This would allow me to use containers like Boost Muti-Index which might require the address of the entitiy which is added to the collection.
  
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• billreynolds

  
  After lot of struggle I realized that a STL is easy to use with the managed c++. What is needed is an unmanaged wrapper for your managed class which will hold the handle to the managed object. And functions for comparing/evaluating for the STL algorithms.
  I got so frustrated with the MC++ that I overlooked some of the commonly used workarounds.
  
  
  
  --P
  
  
• STL for Managed C++