Here is some code to help you to deploy a COM component from C#. I needed to programmatically deploy a project that would be registered as COM object (not COM+) and be installed into GAC. The follo...

When a COM client calls a DotNet object, the DotNet framework will create a COM callable wrapper (CCW). COM clients use the CCW as a proxy for the managed object.

The DotNet framework exposes COM objects through a proxy called the runtime callable wrapper (RCW). The primary function of RCW is to marshal call between a managed client (.Net) and unmanaged COM ...

The Interoperability services make it very easy to work with COM Capable Applications such as Word and Excel. This article reveals using Excel from a managed application. Excel is the spreadsheet c...

As you know with Visual Basic 6.0, it is possible develop a COM server and implement them in a Visual Basic client program. But this is being done by using Visual Basic. You may wonder about the id...

First of all, COM+ does revolutionize COM; it is not only a superior new version of the COM programming model it is also a new platform to design and develop components. In addition, COM+ Services ...

We have mushrooms of network systems running across the globe based on many proprietary protocols. In order to integrate these systems to communicate with each other in a more meaningful way, devel...

This article covers the subject regarding Language Independence. This term Language Independent means one can create an application using various languages. This Language independent starts from pa...

Component is nothing but the reusable piece of software in binary form that can be plugged into other components from other vendors.

This tutorial explains step by step of accessing COM+ application using C#.

This article allows you to read the classes contained inside of WithClass 2000 into a Word Document using COM Interoperability for Word and COM Interoperability for WithClass and presents your clas...

Using ADO recordset in managed code using ADO.NET data providers is pretty simple. Visual studio .NET provides you to add reference to the COM libraries. In this article I'll show you how to access...

In this example we will see how to change the Desktop wallpaper by invoking a Windows API function from C#. The Platform Invoke mechanism allows you to access unmanaged functions implemented in dll...

A web service in general is a way of exposing the properties and methods through the Internet In other words, it's an URL-addressable resource that programmatically returns information to clients w...

Data interoperability with Microsoft office applications has become easier with ADO.net.

Component Object Model (COM) is a method to facilitate communication between different applications and languages.

This is the last article in this series, it talks about unmanaged code interoperation; that’s, interop between .NET code and other code from other technologies (like Windows API, native libraries, ...

In this article we are going to explore the Speech API library that’s part of the TTS SDK that helps you reading text and speaking it. We’re going to see how to do it programmatically using C# and ...

In the previous article, you learned what interoperability is and how it relates to the .NET Framework. In this article, we’re going to talk about the first form of interoperability, the Managed Co...