The Need for Interacting with Existing COM Components
The existing Component Object Model infrastructure has had a lot of investment in terms of time, resources, and money. Having widely used COM for developing desktop and distributed applications in Windows NT, organizations will find it difficult to make a quick transition from COM to the .NET managed environment in Windows 2000. This is because, creating .NET equivalents for the existing COM components will involve a lot of coding effort and time.
Fortunately, COM components can interact with the .NET managed environment. The .NET framework provides a COM Interop layer that helps in the interaction between classic COM components and the .NET managed environment. COM components can be accessed ...
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