How to call managed code from unmanaged code?
I believe you are looking for Reverse PInvoke. If you google for reverse pinvoke you'll get a lot of helpful entries. I think the following has a good quick and dirty example.
PInvoke-Reverse PInvoke and __stdcall - __cdecl
Assuming you are talking about real unmanaged code - not just native C++ running in a mixed-mode assembly compiled with /clr - the easiest way is to create a wrapper to your .NET code in C++/CLI. You can then export the C++/CLI methods by just marking them with __declspec(dllexport).
Alternatively, if you have control over the invocation of the unmanaged code, you can marshal function-pointers to your .NET methods and pass them to the unmanaged code.
Take a look at the GCHandle class and the gcroot keyword, which provides a typesafe, templated wrapper around GCHandle.
You can use these to hold a reference to a CLR object (or a boxed value) in native code.
MSDN has a basic tutorial here.
Look at this solution: https://sites.google.com/site/robertgiesecke/Home/uploads/unmanagedexports The solution allows to call C# function from C by decorating your function with [DllExport] attribute (opposite of P/Invoke DllImport).
Exmaple:
C# code
class Test
{
[DllExport("add", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
public static int Add(int left, int right)
{
return left + right;
}
}
C code:
extern "C" int add(int, int);
int main()
{
int z = add(5,10);
printf("The solution is found!!! Z is %i",z);
return 0;
}
Output:
The solution is found!!! Z is 15
Update: There is a question and a good answer in comments:
How do I include the dll in the unmanaged project?
You have to link to the .lib file that is generated upon compiling your C# code (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ba1z7822.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396)