Chapter 15. Creating and Deploying Useful Primary Interop Assemblies
In This Chapter
• Primary Interop Assembly or Brand New Assembly?
• Creating a Primary Interop Assembly
• Deploying and Registering a Primary Interop Assembly
• Writing IDL That Produces Good Type Libraries
• What About ActiveX Controls?
As discussed in Chapter 3, “The Essentials for Using COM in Managed Code,” a Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) is the official assembly for a corresponding type library, digitally signed and distributed by the author of the type library. The notion of PIAs is simply a convention used by tools such as Visual Studio .NET and TLBIMP.EXE to encourage clients of a COM component to use the same Interop Assembly that others are using. Since the identity ...
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