.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

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.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

by Adam Nathan
List Price: $59.99
Our Price: $41.99
ISBN: 067232170X
Publisher: SAMS (31 January, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 35,594
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 out of 5


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Rating: 5 out of 5


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Well Worth the Money
Currently, this is *the* reference book for the subject area of .NET interop with COM and other unmanaged code via P/Invoke. At almost 1600 pages, it can seem daunting but just treat it like a reference. Open up to the chapter that covers what you are interested in, such as "The Essentials of using COM in Managed Code" (chapter 3) or "The Essential of PInvoke" (chapter 18) or "Customizing COM's View of .NET components" (chapter 12). This last one is one of my favorites because it shows how you have more flexibility in writing COM components in .NET than you have with VB 6.

Another thing I really like about this book is that it has lots of sidebars with tons of useful information that I haven't found anywhere (at least not easily) in the current .NET docs.

Heck, even the appendix is chock full of good stuff like mappings between COM HResults and .NET exceptions and PInvoke definitions for the Win32 API.

Rating: 5 out of 5


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Very detailed treatment of .NET/COM interop
This book represents a very detailed analysis of the issues that arise from interoperating between .NET and COM. The book describes the issues involved in using COM components within .NET with the same attention to detail as those in designing .NET components that are used within "legacy" COM apps. The book closes with a detailed discussion of P/Invoke and some more advanced topics such as custom marshalling. The sheer size of the book might be frightening to some but the book's structure makes it easy to pick up exactly what you need. For example, each major part starts off with an example-rich introductory chapter that is a great help in getting started with interop. On the other hand, the book allows the reader to really dig into the minute details of interop. I particularly liked that the book provides lots of valuable design guidelines and an abundance of realistic code examples. Maybe not a book that one wants to read front to cover but an invaluable reference and troubleshooter for anyone who works in the interop area and needs to understand what is really going on under the covers. The most complete work on this important topic yet.

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This book is not for c++ developers
If you want to write in c# this book is for you. The author is very verbose.


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