COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact. COM is the foundation technology for Microsoft's OLE (compound documents) and ActiveX (Internet-enabled components) technologies, as well as others. Author Andrew Troelsen tells about the building blocks of the COM and .NET architectures and how they interact (i.e. interoperate).
Covers the internal aspects of COM/.NET interoperability with minimal focus on integrated Wizard tools Covers accessing COM components, Win32 API, and C DLLs from .NET applications Covers COM components accessing .NET types Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Andrew Troelsen
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