MCAD/MCSD.NET Training Guide (Exam 70-316): Developing and Implementing Windows®-Based Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET

Chapter Summary

Although the .NET Framework is extensive, it is not all-encompassing. Many projects need to use a mixture of old (COM or Windows) components and new (.NET) components. Even if all the necessary facilities are available within the .NET Framework, it might not be feasible to migrate an entire existing application to .NET all at once.

KEY TERMS managed code PInvoke RCW unmanaged code

The .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET include a variety of features that are designed to make it easy to use legacy components. In this chapter, you learned about three of those features:

• The ability to use ActiveX controls on a Windows form

• The ability to instantiate and invoke objects from a COM component

• The ability to call functions from a Windows ...