COM and .NET Interoperability

Author : Andrew Troelsen, Intertech-Inc
ISBN : 1-59059-011-2
Pages : 769
Publisher : Apress
Publication Date : April 2002

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Book Description:

COM and .NET Interoperability provides a complete overview of the process of building .NET applications that interact (interoperate) with existing COM code. Before digging into that critical topic, author Andrew Troelsen offers a concise overview of the COM architecture and provides examples using various COM frameworks (C++, ATL, and VB 6.0) as well as the core .NET managed languages (C# and VB .NET).

After covering the preliminaries, the book explores numerous issues that arise in interoperability, including interacting with the Win32 API, dynamically generating source code via System.CodeDOM, creating serviced (COM+) components using managed code, manually editing (and recompiling) .NET metadata, and the process of constructing custom COM/.NET conversion utilities. Both intermediate and advanced developers will welcome the practical information they need to quickly work with COM and COM+ in .NET applications, and learn how to create .NET components that are COM compatible.

In a nutshell, this book:

- educates readers on the building blocks of the COM and .NET architectures
- covers the internal aspects of COM /.NET interoperability with minimal focus on integrated Wizard tools
- teaches readers on how to build custom COM /.NET conversion tools
- covers accessing COM components, Win32 API, and C DLLs from .NET applications
- covers COM components accessing .NET types

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"In cases where performance is critical, you may have no desire to ever upgrade your C++ DLL, but would like to use C# for GUI design, rather than Microsoft Foundation Classes. If any of these situations apply, this is the book for you."

"We followed the book's step-by-step instructions to create a CCW that allows us to use the NET framework's XML digital signature support in our existing unmanaged code. Try cobbling up an XMLDSIG implementation on your own! I can't imagine anyone attempting to use Interop technology without a reference like this."

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