COM and .NET Interoperability

✍ Scribed by Andrew Troelsen (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 797
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Understanding Platform Invocation Services....Pages 1-49
The Anatomy of a COM Server....Pages 51-126
A Primer on COM Programming Frameworks....Pages 127-159
COM Type Information....Pages 161-228
The Anatomy of a .NET Server....Pages 229-288
.NET Types....Pages 289-338
.NET-to-COM Interoperability—The Basics....Pages 339-402
.NET-to-COM Interoperability—Intermediate Topics....Pages 403-470
.NET-to-COM Interoperability—Advanced Topics....Pages 471-538
COM-to-.NET Interoperability—The Basics....Pages 539-592
COM-to-.NET Interoperability—Intermediate Topics....Pages 593-631
COM-to-.NET Interoperability—Advanced Topics....Pages 633-667
Building Serviced Components (COM+ Interop)....Pages 669-738
Back Matter....Pages 739-776

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems