The common language runtime's COM interoperability services make it possible to use existing COM objects from within managed applications and expose managed objects to existing COM applications.

This section explains how to build and install managed code that will be used from COM applications.

This section explains how to build managed code that uses COM.

This example demonstrates how to use COM object from a Visual Basic or C# application.

This example demonstrates how to sink unmanaged events from .NET code.

This example demonstrates how to call a function exported from an unmanaged library from managed code. The MessageBox routine in User32.dll and GetSystemTime routine in Kernel32.dll are called. The...

Recently, I have done a fair amount of Win32® Interop in my Microsoft® .NET Framework-based apps.