Mix C++ and VB.NET projects in one solution

[xcheng75]

I am doing a project. I have some functions written in C++. I need to call these functions from a VB.NET project. In order to avoid to rewrite all these C++ functions, I put them inside one project which is CLR class library and put calling VB.net in another project under one solution file. And add reference of the VB.net project to the C++.net dll.

My questions are

1. How to correctly put all these C++ functions inside the CLR dll with correct syntax?
I found in the generated C++.net project template, inside .h file:
name space NameofSpace
{
public ref class ClassName
{
}
}
what is ref class?

2. how to call these C++ functions with correct syntax?

I am kind of new to .net and VB. Thank you very much guru!

 

[xcheng75]

FileNotFoundException

I am trying to put one C++ class library compiled with CLR and use VB.net code to call the functions of C++ functions, I got error:

Could not load file or assembly 'VCBmp, Version=1.0.3096.17469, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Could someone help me with this error?

 

[cjard]

sounds like the class loader cant find the DLL.. is it set to output to the same dir as the application?