Is there any way of including C++ commands in a C# program?

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I am very familiar with C and C++, but I am new to C#. Is there any way of including C++ commands in a C# program? For example:

cout << "Hello world" ;

I realize that C# is a visual language, but it seems like such commands as

Console.WriteLine("Hello world");

is awkward if you just want to send something to the screen.

This example is only one example. I am not trying to say that one language is better than the other, but in some cases within a single program to use a command native to C++ than one than one from C#.

.. and then compile the c++ code and add it to the c# project :) — ΦXocę 웃 Пepeúpa ツ, Oct 14 '16 at 16:45
Technically you could use C++/CLI (if you're on Windows with Visual Studio). But you have to already be pretty good with both C++ and .NET to use it properly. And you can't write C# in it. — Cameron, Oct 14 '16 at 16:50
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-372.htm — bengrine, Oct 14 '16 at 16:51
You think `Console.WriteLine("Hello world");` is awkward and yet you say you're very familiar with C which has the exact same syntax `printf("Hello world");` ?!?!? — Hatted Rooster, Oct 14 '16 at 16:52
What exactly do you find awkward? The length of `Console.WriteLine` or the syntax function call syntax `F()`? — Theodoros Chatzigiannakis, Oct 14 '16 at 16:53
@TaW I'd call [this](https://scratch.mit.edu) a 'visual language'. — Bill Tür stands with Ukraine, Oct 14 '16 at 21:11
Right. I meant of course that the 'Visual' in VS in no way means that C# or VB are in any way more 'visual' than c++.. — TaW, Oct 14 '16 at 21:23
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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '16 at 16:47

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You can't use C++s standard library in C#.

What you can do, however, is use C#s standard library (.NET) in C++.

Another option would be to write critical modules in C++ and link with them from C#.

answered Oct 14 '16 at 16:47

Ivan Rubinson

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '16 at 16:47

These are not commands these are statements from two different programming languages for doing same thing. Since C# statements is Idiomatic it tries to mimic natural language as much as it can.

But if your goal is to simplify console statement you can do the following. 'using static' will make it more cleaner

using static System.Console;
namespace Sample
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Write("Some text");
        }
    }
}

Is there any way of including C++ commands in a C# program?

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