I'm just starting to dive into Visual Studio .NET 2003 and have been attempting to find the answer on how I can use C++ managed DLL's with an older VC6.0 MFC application. Here's the scenario: I have several large MFC applications that currently use functions contained in MFC DLL's. These DLL's aren't large so converting the DLL's to a true managed DLL in .NET is not cumbersome however, attempting to convert the applications at this stage would not be feasible. The converted DLL's will also be used by new .NET managed applications. My question is simply can a managed DLL written in C++ (or C# for that matter) under .NET be used by traditional VC6.0 MFC applications as well as new .NET web form applications? If so how does one setup the DLL to do this? - stub

Many thanks for the reply Art. Sounds like a workable solution that shouldn't be too cumbersome to implement.

I need to be able to take a canned graphic of a form and be able to dynamically insert text items such as name and address onto the graphic and then send the information to a printer. An example of this would be like a kid's game where the kid enters their name at the beginning of the game and then at certain points during the game, they can print out a certificate or card that has that name on it. Can anybody steer me in the right direction? I'm developing under MSVC 6.0. Thanks in advance. Stub