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,...

COM ON A WIRE, also known as DCOM, was a great boon to the distributed pro- grammer. Under the model ofDCOM, a client was able to interact with COM objects located literally anywhere, without requiring a change of code base. Using the indi- rection provided by AppiDs, stubs, proxies, and channels, our distributed endeavors involved little more than the use of declarative tools such as dcomcnfg.exe and the Component Services snap-in. However, all was not well in the world ofDCOM (or COM for that matter). Although the clicking of check boxes made COM-based remoting appear quite simple on the...

COM ON A WIRE, also known as DCOM, was a great boon to the distributed pro- grammer. Under the model ofDCOM, a client was able to interact with COM objects located literally anywhere, without requiring a change of code base. Using the indi- rection provided by AppiDs, stubs, proxies, and channels, our distributed endeavors involved little more than the use of declarative tools such as dcomcnfg.exe and the Component Services snap-in. However, all was not well in the world of DCOM (or COM for that matter). Although the clicking of check boxes made COM-based remoting appear quite simple on the...

The point of this chapter was to demystify the garbage collection process. As you have seen, the garbage collector will only run when it is unable to acquire the necessary memory from the m- aged heap (or when a given AppDomain unloads from memory). When a garbage collection does occur, you can rest assured that Microsoft's collection algorithm has been optimized by the use of object generations, secondary threads for the purpose of object finalization, and a managed heap dedicated to host large objects. This chapter also illustrated how to programmatically interact with the garbage collector...

We're a Team, You and I Technology authors write for a demanding group of people (I should know--I'm one of them). You know that building software solutions using any platform (e. g., . NET, Java, and COM) is extremely complicated and is highly specific to your department, company, client base, and subject matter. Perhaps you work in the electronic publishing industry, develop systems for the state or local government, or work at NASA or a branch of the military. Speaking for myself, I have developed children's educational software (Oregon Trail / Amazon Trail anyone?), various n-tier...