dotnet interop: Newbie to COM Interop -- dotnet interop

Re: Newbie to COM Interop

Chris Davoli
8/21/2007 8:44:05 AM

Thanks Phil.

So what your saying, if I want to just call the com component, just adding a
reference to it in the local project without GAC'ing it, will do it. Is that
true? Sounds pretty easy.

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Chris Davoli

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Re: Newbie to COM Interop

Phill W.
8/21/2007 1:13:06 PM

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At its /most/ simple, add a reference to the COM component; Visual
Studio will create you an InterOp Assembly (local to your current
project) that allows you to call the methods on the COM object and wires
up any necessary data type conversions and the like.

Beyond that, you're looking at the "tlbimp" utility (if you need to put
/your/ Assemblies into the Global Assembly Cache then you'll need tlbimp
to "Strongly Name" the generated InterOp Assembly).

And, if you're playing with automating MS Office then you'll need to
read up on its "Primary InterOp Assemblies".

HTH,

Re: Newbie to COM Interop

Phill W.
8/22/2007 12:00:00 AM

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Yes.

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It's certainly worked for me in the past.
Mind you, I tend to work with components that are reused machine-wide,
so I end up putting things into the GAC anyway.

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Of /course/ it is - this is Visual Studio :-)

I does all /sorts/ of "Good Things" for you, without you even having to
know what they are... Yeah; right! ;-)

Regards,

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