The .NET and COM Interoperability Handbook

by Gordon, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780130461308
• ISBN10: 013046130X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR

Summary

COM/COM+. and .NET will need to interoperate for a long time to come as companies undergo the migration to .NET. Gordon's book is a natural fit for anyone with COM applications that need to work with .NET, as it provides practical migration advice for developers moving their applications from COM/COM+ to .NET.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Series

What's in a Name?Microsoft .NET. XML Web Services. XML. SOAP.The .NET Framework

The .NET Framework SDK

The CLR. MSIL. The .NET Framework Class Library. ADO.NET. ASP.NET. Windows Forms

Other Microsoft.NET Technologies. Stale .NET-Related Names. Comparing .NET to Java

Summary

Comparing COM and .NET.What is a Software Component?

What Is a Software Bus?

Life Cycle Management

Programming Language Independence

Location Transparency

Extensibility

Versioning

Summary

Exploring the CLR

Describing The CLR

Defining Managed Code and Managed Data

Types

Assemblies

MSIL

How the Runtime Locates Assemblies

Garbage Collection

Code Access Security

Summary

A Quick Introduction to C#

Getting Started with C#

Creating a Simple Hello World Application

Compiling and Linking the Hello World Application

The Basic Operators in C#

The Primitive Types Available in C#

Creating and Manipulating a String in C#

Creating and Using an Array in C#

Declaring classes in C#

Using Inheritance in C#

Flow of Control Constructs

Exception Handling in C#

Summary

Using Visual Studio .NET

Introduction

Summary

An Introduction to COM Interop

Introduction. COM Interop

Using COM Objects from .NET Clients

Using .NET Objects from COM Clients

Platform Invoke

Summary

Advanced .NET to COM Interop

Object Life Cycle Implications

Using COM Events in Managed Code

Using COM-Rich Error Information in Managed Code

Multithreading and COM Apartments

Primary Interop Assemblies

Advanced Interop Marshaling Considerations Using ActiveX Controls in Managed Code

Performance Considerations

Advanced Aspects of Pinvoke

Summary

Advanced COM to .NET Interop

Object Creation

Object Life-Cycle Implications

Overloaded Methods

COM Apartments

Using Types from the .NET Framework Class Library

Class Interfaces Revisited

Rich Error Information

Using Windows Forms Controls

ComVisible

Handling Managed Events from a COM Client

Deploying COM/Win32 Applications That Use .NET Components

Summary

Using COM+ (Enterprise Services)

A Couple of Big Caveats

Creating a Serviced Component

Creating a Client

The Implementation of the Serviced Component Methods

Summary

XML Web Services

Web Services: The Big Picture

The ASP.NET Web Services Infrastructure

Creating a Simple Web Service

Creating and Consuming a Web Service with Visual Studio .NET. XML Web Services and Data

Returning Data Using a Dataset

Transactions

Summary

.NET Remoting

Why Do We Need .NET Remoting? .NET Remoting Architecture

Categories of Remotable Types

A Simple .NET Remoting Client and Server

Configuration

Code Organization

Soapsuds

Hosting Your Server in IIS

Interoperation Between COM+ and Web Services

Summary

Migration and Interop Strategies

Migration versus Interop

Vertical Migration

Horizontal Migration

Summary

Index

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