using winform controls in unmanaged mfc-dialog-box project

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i'm working on a program developed with mfc and winform.i use mfc to make an application frame,winform for UI.I search google which said it could be ok using hosting winforms in the mfc dialog box.but there're also some concerns.
1.i dont want set the mfc main frame project as clr...
2.my mfc project is based on dialog box.
3.i want to refer to winform UI library directly.
thanks in advance for your answers.

Posted 29-Jun-14 17:51pm

koll Zhu

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Jun-14 0:43am

Makes little to no sense... .NET and native Windows are different platforms; it is easy to use native code in .NET, but not the other way around. You can turn .NET code into a COM component, but I would strongly discourage doing it at all...
—SA

koll Zhu 30-Jun-14 4:45am

why not?i can host clr in unmanaged mfc app and then execute the managed code.its the only question how to call a method returning none-int value.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Jun-14 11:33am

Well, because you probably want to stay out of trouble, so the effort would not worth the poorly maintainable unreliable result you would get, most likely. Who told you you only can return int?
—SA

koll Zhu 30-Jun-14 12:16pm

I choose to host a CLR to execute the managed code.i use the interface ICLRRuntimeHost.it has a method executeindefaultdomain,the output para is a pointer to DWORD.i try to return the usercontrol handle and convert it to Cwnd*,but falsed.i don't known how to return a form or UserControl

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Jun-14 13:08pm

You certainly can host CLR. I only cannot imagine that doing all that can get you any practical benefits, especially if the goal is dealing with such outdated thingy as MFC. :-)
—SA

koll Zhu 30-Jun-14 20:03pm

Winform or Wpf project is subjected to the CLR,so I use MFC.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Jun-14 23:39pm

The first part of the sentence and "so" are not logically related. You want to reuse the code from both platforms, but this is not enough to make it practically sensible. But this is not my role to convince you; you should know better what to do...
—SA

koll Zhu 1-Jul-14 0:32am

OK,thank you all the same

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