C++ CLI support for assembly references

[fgenolini]

Could you add support for the Microsoft C++ CLI language?

For example, add support for parsing .Net assembly import statements such as:

	using namespace System::Windows::Forms;

also could you add support for managed type parsing, such as:

	public ref class MyForm : public System::Windows::Forms::Form
	{
	};

or

[STAThread]
void Main(array<String^>^ args)
{
}

[bobbrow]

We do have some support for C++ CLI if you set "compilerPath": "C:/path/to/cl.exe /clr" in your c_cpp_properties.json

I didn't see the System::Windows namespace in there though, so I don't think that we've wired up support for assembly references yet. @sean-mcmanus?

[fgenolini]

Thanks for this.

For the moment I will temporarily fix this by adding

#using "System.Windows.Forms.dll"

in all translation units that I need VS Code to recognise

Regards,

[sean-mcmanus]

Yeah, I just added support for the basic C++/CLI language features and I didn't try it with System.Windows.Forms.

[Colengms]

I don't believe there is a bug here. The location of the assembly needs to be specified as an include path. i.e.

"includePath": [
    "${workspaceFolder}/**",
    "C:/Program Files (x86)/Reference Assemblies/Microsoft/Framework/.NETFramework/v4.8"
],

Using the above, System::Windows::Forms shows up for me via auto-complete, and does not squiggle if used in using namespace.