January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1608 pages
38h 34m
English
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Chapter 16. COM Design Guidelines for Components Used by .NET Clients
In This Chapter
• General Guidelines
• Using Array Parameters
• Issues with VARIANT Parameters
• Reporting Errors
• Adjusting Certain COM-Specific Idioms
• Managing Limited Resources
• Threading and Apartment Guidelines
• Providing Self-Describing Type Information
• Naming Guidelines
• Performance Considerations
This chapter focuses on developing new software using COM. With the arrival of .NET, the recommendations for designing COM APIs have changed, assuming you care about .NET clients using your COM components (either now or in the future). Most existing COM components have a disadvantage of being designed before .NET existed, so their authors did not know what COM Interoperability ...