.NET and COM Interoperability Handbook, The

Chapter Seven. Advanced .NET to COM Interop

In the last chapter, you learned the basic essentials of COM Interop. You learned how to use a simple COM object from a managed code (.NET) client and how to use a simple managed code (.NET) component from an unmanaged client. However, everything that you learned in Chapter 6 is really just the tip of the iceberg. I did not discuss a number of issues in that chapter that make using COM Interop more complicated than you have seen so far. In this chapter, I concentrate on advanced aspects of .NET to COM Interop, that is, using COM components from a managed code client. Some of the issues that I discuss in this chapter are object life cycle differences between reference counting and garbage collection, ...