Summary
Interoperability is paramount to the success of modern application development and .NET itself. For this reason, .NET exposes a number of interop possibilities and provides the level of control that a given developer may need or can handle.
The following are key points of the chapter:
.NET can reach into COM servers through the CLR-generated and managed Runtime Callable Wrapper.
COM developers integrating with .NET clients should create a Primary Interop Assembly to wrap their object's interfaces.
You can create a custom wrapper for a given COM object through inheritance and overriding methods of a COM server's PIA.
.NET components can be called from COM clients through the CLR-generated unmanaged COM Callable Wrapper.
.NET components shared ...
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