December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Chapter 14. .NET Interoperability with COM
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Most companies that have been developing with Microsoft development tools have a large investment in their existing systems, especially the business logic they have coded into COM components. Those components are being used by Windows applications and Web applications, and are often used as the workhorse of applications for enforcing business rules and allowing for reusability of those rules across multiple applications.
The .NET Framework provides many benefits, but it is impractical to think that all companies will immediately update all their business logic components to .NET. To address ...