c++-cli

I am working on an application with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 7. The application has a C# frontend, a C++ CLR wrapper and C++ native code. My application crashes with an access violation while initializing a static variable at function scope with C++ native code. But only on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 and not on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2012. I know Windows Server 2003 is out of support, but I have to target that platform for a few additional months and Visual Studio 2015 provides a platform toolset to target it. I created a small reproducible example which you find at the end.

I am using Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 SP1, and have a test application with the following modules: a C++ DLL a C++/CLI DLL that uses #1 a C# WPF application that uses #2 When I try to use classes from #2 as resources in the WPF XAML, the designer won't let me: <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:lib1="clr-namespace:ClassLibrary1;assembly=ClassLibrary1" <- ERROR The error is: "Assembly 'ClassLibrary1' was not found. Verify that you are not missing an assembly

Microsoft recently released tools and documentation for its new Phone 7 platform, which to the dismay of those who have a big C++ codebase (like me) doesn't support native development anymore. Although I've found speculation about this decision being reversed, I doubt it. So I was thinking how viable would be to make this codebase available to Phone 7 by adapting it to compile under C++/CLI. Of course the user interface parts couldn't be ported, but I'm not sure about the rest. Anyone had a similar experience? I'm not talking about code that does heavy low-level stuff - but there's a quite

I'm new to C++ CLI coming from unmanaged C++ world. I'm getting this error: candidate function(s) not accessible when I pass a std::string as part of the method argument. Here's the exact code: Lib Project (compiled as .dll project) //Lib.h #pragma once public ref class Lib { public: Lib(void); public: void Extract( std::string& data_ ); }; //Lib.cpp #include "Lib.h" Lib::Lib(void) { } void Lib::Extract( std::string& data_ ) { data_.empty(); } LibTest Project (compiled as application.exe) // LibTest.h #pragma once ref class LibTest { public: LibTest(void); }; // LibTest.cpp #include "LibTest.h