Hi! I recently started programming in c#. Found it very easy, since I had programmed som Java and a lot C++ before. Now, I'm used to make interfaces for everything :) But now that I'm programming c#, maybe I'm overexaggerating ? My main concern is the core functions like FileStreams and stuff like that. In C++ I had to abstract everything to make it crossplatform, but I hear that there will be some sort of .net drivers for unix as well? So I might just as well use the core functions for FileStreams etc? Thx!

I had a similiar problem abt a year ago when I started on .NET. More specifically I was doing something silly with DLL's (Assemblies) ie. Having a DLL Exporter factory that would get me the correct class at runtime.

This was a good design in C++ using export functions
eg.

HRESULT WINAPI DLLQueryObject(REFIID riid, void** ppvObj);

called with

CMentalRayRender* r = NULL;
... //dll loading and GetProcAddress here ...
dllPROC(IID_IMentalRayRenderer, &r);

This DOES NOT need to be done in .NET.
All u do is ..

using MentalRayPlugin;
...

MentalRayPlugin r = new MentalRayPlugin();

One has to think and design differently in .NET as there is no need for certain "tricks" that one used in C++. eg. exporting pointers/classes from DLL's.

And so on and so forth ...

Ok, thx guys!

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