Learn to create ActiveX controls with .NET: expose interfaces, embed controls in web pages, transfer data from forms, and handle security.

In this article, we review the concepts & walk through an example that demonstrates COM interoperability in the .NET framework. Learn about the Component Object Model (COM) and the Runtime Call...

This article provides a simple sample of an application that clicks a button in another application.

The System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace defines classes where some of which define methods that enable managed code to call native code. This is accomplished via an internal call and is called...

This article shows how to show a PDF file in a Windows application with the help of the Adobe ActiveX COM.

Here, you will see the steps for using a simple C++ DLL in a C# application.

One significant task for developers (including myself) is doing some kind of automation of Microsoft Office. So, I will concentrate on the opposing side of the problem - how to use managed assembly...

This program will create a very simple window that just says Hello but it does using just the Windows GUI API in C#.

In this article , I will expose another way to generate a COM component and I will give also a trick of how to consume this generated COM from within VC++ 6.0 application.

In this article, we will see how to create a simple COM application in Visual Studio 2008 and how to consume it from a VB6 client application.

This is a brief introduction to the COM component object model.

This article looks at how you can use the COM+ Shared Property Manager (SPM) in .NET to implement the sharing of state across components. I’m assuming that you are familiar with VB.NET, Windows For...

This article and attached source code shows you how to create MMC Snapin using C#.

In the current Internet scenario, various classic applications run on multiple networks. These applications could have been written using different languages like Visual Basic, Visual C++. For exam...

In this article, we will see what interoperability is all about, comparison between Java and .NET interoperability, the benefits of and challenges faced in interoperability and the role of WS-I in ...

The important goals of .NET during its development was to promote interoperability with existing technologies.

This article gives you a solution for generating a client side validation script in a component model that you can reuse in an ASP.NET project.

Using this program you can map Excel columns programmatically and generate an XML file containing the cell values that you had in your Excel document. After generating the XML file we can read it i...

During last year I wrote an article about DTS and how to use it in C#. In that article I stated that I didn’t manage to solve the problem related to CustomTask. Today I finally forced myself to tac...

This article will cover the details of Platform Invocation Services provided in .Net Framework. Platform Invoke Services acts as a bridge between the managed and unmanaged code. This service enable...