.NET Interop with COM
For the most part, the CLR inside of .NET shields us from the intricacies and complexities associated with interoperating between the world of legacy COM applications and that of .NET. When making cross-boundary calls, the CLR automatically generates a wrapper for the given client to use, effectively making the call appear as native to the given client, whether it is .NET or COM. In doing so, .NET manages all of the following:
Object binding
Object identity
Marshaling and translation
Object life cycle
Error and exception handling
Without this support, the task of accessing objects across these very different programming models would be daunting to the average developer. However, by leveraging the services the CLR provides and ...
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