"Pavel Chikulaev" <pavel.chikulaev@gmail.com> wrote
That's not quite correct. You can have templates of managed types. AFAIK in .NET 2.0 only, isn't it?
Templates are obviously a feature of the C++ compiler. VC++ 8 (which will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0) does support templates. VC 7.x do that to a very limited exent only (You can have certain function templates with managed signatures).
So effectively, writing an implementation with the current structure and using .NET classes for file system access gets you a whole lot of nothing, I'm afraid.
You meant coverting std::string to .NET string, didn't you?
No. I meant adding a .NET implementations of the operations of filesystem. E.g. implement find_first_file/next_file/close in terms of System::IO::Directory::GetFiles() and not touching anything else. This can be compiled to managed code only (as can the current Windows implementation). I just don't think it does buy you anything. -hg