Chapter 18. .NET Interop with COM Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

Microsoft has devoted a number of resources to ensure that your current code base is not trashed with the advent of .NET. As a result, .NET and the CLR understand how to talk to COM, and Microsoft has provided features that make COM forward compatible with .NET! Therefore, before you fire up that porting engine or rewrite your entire middle tier, make sure that porting—and not simply interoperating—is the answer.

In this chapter, we discuss how to determine which pieces of existing applications you might migrate, as well as the task of creating new functionality in .NET while keeping ...

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