I recently was asked about accessing the Live Framework from C++. Taking this from the standpoint of “Hey, I have a regular old C++ application. How can I start putting my stuff into Live Services using Live fx?” there are a couple of options. REST/XML C++ CLI Interop These are reasonable alternatives...

Extension methods are a nice little feature now available in C# and VB.NET. They allow you to tack on new methods to existing classes for which you don’t own the original code. Now C++ does not support this natively and so I recently got bit when I was translating some C# code into C++ CLI. While C#...