Chapter 4. Using .NET Components in COM Applications
Chapter 3 showed you how COM objects can be used in .NET code and how using COM objects facilitates the process of transitioning from COM-based code to .NET applications. This chapter will show how you can also present .NET components as COM objects so that they can be used in COM client code.
The COM Callable Wrapper
You saw in Chapter 3 how the Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW) wraps COM components to expose them to .NET. This chapter looks at COM Callable Wrappers (CCWs), which are used to wrap .NET components to expose them to COM client code.
There is exactly one COM Callable Wrapper object per .NET object, although the CCW can be used by multiple COM clients at any one time. The .NET object ...
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