.NET and COM Interoperability Handbook, The

Preface

At the company for which I work we have just begun the process of planning our migration to .NET. This process has been fraught with both political and technical challenges. The purpose of this book is to help you with the technical challenges of .NET migration, in particular using COM Interop. The only help I can give you on the political challenges is: Beware of people who want to use .NET just because it's “cool”, because Microsoft says you should, or to pad their resume. Also, beware of people who don't want to use .NET because of personal biases against Microsoft. Decisions about what technologies should be used should be based on business objectives first, customer satisfaction second, and ease of development and maintenance third. ...