.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide

Chapter 21. Manually Defining COM Types in Source Code

In This Chapter

• Using SDK Tools for Support

• Manually Defining COM Interfaces

• Manually Defining Coclass Interfaces and Event Types

• Manually Defining COM Structures

• Manually Defining COM Enums

• Manually Defining COM Classes

• Avoiding the Balloon Effect

In an ideal world, a .NET definition of every COM interface, class, enum, and so on, would exist somewhere in a Primary Interop Assembly that’s readily available. Furthermore, every definition would be completely usable in every .NET language, no matter how non-standard it may be. Of course, this is not the world we live in, but there are a variety of things we can do when a desired Primary Interop Assembly does not exist.

We ...