COM and .NET Interoperability

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 how to make interoperability practical, Andrew Troelsen gives you a concise overview of the COM and .NET architectures, and provides examples using various COM frameworks (raw C++, ATL, and Visual Basic 6) as well as the core .NET managed languages(C# and Visual Basic .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. About the Author: Andrew Troelsen is a partner and trainer at Intertech-Inc., and a leading authority on both COM and .NET. He first covered traditional COM in the best-selling Developers Workshop to COM and ATL and followed it with his five-star treatment of C# in C# and the .NET Platform (a 2002 Jolt Award Finalist), and of VB .NET in VB .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide. He has degrees in Mathematical Linguistics and South Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota. He currently lives in Minneapolis, MN, with his wife, Amanda, and spends his free time investigating .NET and waiting for the Wild to win the Stanley Cup.