[Boost-users] Re: using boost with .NET CLR

Kevin Kuo wrote:

Hi all,

I'm not very familar with microsoft .net technologies, but I would like to know if anyone has been able to use boost inside a managed c++ application? Are there some performance hits, pitfalls, or is it in general a bad idea? Thanks.

There is no problem using Boost, or any standard C++ libraries, as long as you do so in a native C++ class and not a managed C++ class. Managed C++ classes do not understand templates or template instantiations at all in the 1.0 and 1.1 release of .NET and will fail to compiler with them.