The .NET and COM Interoperability Handbook (Integrated .Net) [Paperback]

Alan Gordon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Integrated .Net | Publication Date: December 30, 2002

This book explains the .NET Framework from the perspective of a COM/COM+ programmer. It compares COM/COM+ and .NET. It also shows readers how to use their existing COM/COM+ components from .NET and how to call .NET components from their Win32/COM applications. This is not the kind of cursory coverage of COM interoperability that is found in most .NET Framework books. The author delves deep into the subject, covering items such as the effect of the COM Apartment threading model, ActiveX controls, late binding, and the impedance mismatch between reference counting in COM and garbage collection in .NET. The book also features extensive coverage of how to use the COM+ Services from a .NET application. In the initial stages of the hype surrounding Microsoft's introduction of .NET and the .NET Framework, many people assumed that the .NET Framework was the end of COM/COM+. It turns out that quite the opposite is true. Very few companies have the luxury of halting new work for several months while they migrate all of their code to use the .NET framework. At most organizations, .NET code and COM code will need to work together (interoperate) for some time to come. Microsoft's acceptance of this reality shows in the substantial amount of effort that they have put into .NET/COM interoperability.

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From the Back Cover

.NET/COM interoperability in depth: comprehensive techniques and strategies

• The most in-depth guide to .NET/COM interoperability ever published!
• Covers every .NET/COM interop option, "gotcha," and workaround
• Offers practical strategies for .NET migration and long-term .NET/COM coexistence
• Compares .NET to COM and Java
• Addresses many advanced issues, including Interop marshaling, Primary Interop Assemblies, using ActiveX Controls from managed code, using COM+ Services from managed code, converting your COM+ Applications to XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

The .NET and COM Interoperability Handbook will help you move your Windows(-based software into the future without abandoning the investments you've already made. Writing from the perspective of the experienced COM/COM+ developer, Alan Gordon offers the most realistic, in-depth coverage of .NET/COM interoperability ever presented. He illuminates all your .NET/COM interoperability options, offering practical advice for both migration and long-term coexistence. Coverage includes:

• What COM/COM+ developers must know first about .NET/COM interoperability
• Using the .NET/COM interoperability resources built into Visual Studio .NET
• Calling COM/COM+ components from .NET
• Calling .NET components from Win32/COM applications
• Using COM+ Services from .NET applications
• Turning your COM+ applications into an XML Web Service without writing any code
• Understanding the impact of COM apartment threading on .NET performance
• Overcoming mismatches between COM reference counting and .NET garbage collection
• Interop marshaling, ActiveX controls, .NET remoting, and much more

About the Author

ALAN GORDON, Group Program Manager at FieldCentrix in Irvine, CA, is responsible for FX Service Center, an Internet-based service management and dispatch application built with ASP, COM+, and SQL Server. He is also responsible for E-Service, an ASP.NET-based product that allows field service companies to quickly enable their customers to make and track service calls on the Web.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (December 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013046130X
• ISBN-13: 978-0130461308
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,503,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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