February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
16h 35m
English
We haven’t yet examined how a .NET application can use COM components. This level of COM interop is usually seamless and is well documented in almost every book about .NET fundamentals. The basic idea is to create a wrapper between the .NET application and the COM component. The .NET application communicates directly with this wrapper (often called a runtime callable wrapper [RCW]), which in turn communicates with the unmanaged COM component. Figure 9-1 depicts this arrangement.

Figure 9-1. The runtime callable wrapper
The RCW is an ordinary .NET assembly that must be deployed with the .NET application. Some vendors provide an RCW ...
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