P/Invoke or C++/CLI for wrapping a C library

Question

Have a moderate size (40-odd function) C API that needs to be called from a C# project. The functions logically break up to form a few classes that will be API presented to the

Answer 1

Lots of good answers here - another perspective is the plan for the existing C API. Arguments for using PInvoke include:

• You need to keep a C API around for compatibility with other C consumers
• You need to keep the code in C as it's large and migration is too expensive

Arguments for using C++/CLI include:

• you want to move as much of the code as possible to the CLR

In this case you can start with C++/CLI and then move more and more over to C#