You could host Rotor in-process inside a native app using the same mechanism that clix.exe uses: call Win32 LoadLibrary() on mscoree.dll, then GetProcAddress for "_CorExeMain2" and call it. You *might* need to first call LoadLibrary() on rotor_pal.dll and call its PAL_Initialize() before loading mscoree.dll, just to be sure that the PAL is ready to go.
sscli\docs\techinfo\native_managed_interop.html describes Rotor's "Foreign Function Interface" (FFI) which can be used to make calls from native C/C++ code into managed code. It would be a logical starting place to build an interop layer that wraps a managed object with a COM object. Barry This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Herring Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Embedding rotor w/ Platform COM? [Try 3: After removing the digital signature, and after having it being tossed as "spam".] After peering at rotor for a while, it seems that if COM exists on the platform, you could write an alternate PAL that took advantage of the native COM. It seems that you could get interop out of rotor into COM objects that way. However, I'm also interested in hosting the rotor runtime by a native COM client. I didn't see a way to do this offhand. Is this feasible? Is the code in rotor somewhere, or would I have to write my own COM wrapper? Thanks, nh =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com NEW! ASP.NET courses you may be interested in: 2 Days of ASP.NET, 29 Sept 2003, in Redmond http://www.develop.com/courses/2daspdotnet Guerrilla ASP.NET, 13 Oct 2003, in Boston http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnet View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com NEW! ASP.NET courses you may be interested in: 2 Days of ASP.NET, 29 Sept 2003, in Redmond http://www.develop.com/courses/2daspdotnet Guerrilla ASP.NET, 13 Oct 2003, in Boston http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnet View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
