January 2003
Beginner
696 pages
16h 38m
English
Chances are fairly high that you have lots of code that isn't written in .NET. If this code is compiled to a DLL, it can be consumed by a .NET application almost transparently.
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Remember that .NET code is considered managed code, running in the managed environment of the .NET Framework. Any code that isn't written in a .NET language and doesn't natively run in the .NET Framework is considered unmanaged code.
The .NET Framework can access unmanaged code through a proxy called the runtime callable wrapper (RCW). The RCW is a proxy class that defines how the types should be marshaled from the unmanaged component to the managed application. The process of creating the RCW can be automatic, done via Visual Studio ...
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