2x1=10

I recent­ly remem­bered a fel­low stu­dent who, a cou­ple of years ago, told me that he inject­ed a (native) DLL into a for­eign process and start­ed the .NET run­time there, that is, had C# code run in a for­eign native process. Well, bright eyes on my side and then I for­got about it.

Any­way, some days ago I gave it a try and it found out that this isn’t too hard to achieve. Run­ning your .NET assem­bly in a native appli­ca­tion requires basi­cal­ly four steps using the .NET 4 Host­ing Inter­faces:

1. Retriev­ing an inter­face to the CLR (meta) host.
2. Request­ing an inter­face to the required run­time.
3. Retriev­ing the actu­al inter­face of the run­time.
4. Exe­cut­ing the assem­bly in the default appli­ca­tion domain.

So here we go, ignor­ing all return codes on the way: Weit­er­lesen »