Wouldn't you would love to rewrite all of your existing code in the managed code environment that .NET provides? .NET provides a rich set of tools for interoperation with existing code. This book is guide for Windows developers transitioning from native Windows code to .NET managed code.

I wrote this book as a guide for other Windows developers who are transitioning from native Windows code to .NET managed code. My hope is to guide you past the myriad of infrequently used interop options and focus on those that you will use most often.

Covers new interop features in .NET 2.0 and VS .NET 2005 Covers PInvoke, COM and COM+ (other books don't cover all 3 areas) The only recipe-style book on the subject Written by an actual working developer with first-hand experience The majority of the example code is shown in C# and VB.NET and also includes some managed C++/CLI

Autorentext
Bruce Bukovics has been a working developer for over 25 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as banking, corporate finance, credit card processing, payroll processing, and retail automation. He has firsthand developer experience with C, C++, Delphi, VB, C#, and Java, and he rode the waves of technology as they drifted from mainframe to client/server to n-Tier, from COM to COM+, and from Web Services to .NET Remoting and beyond. He considers himself a pragmatic programmer. He doesn't stand on formality and doesn't do things just because they have always been done that way. He's willing to look at alternate or unorthodox solutions to a problem if that's what it takes. He is employed at Radiant Systems, Inc., in Alpharetta, Georgia, as a lead developer and architect in the centralized development group.

Inhalt
Using C-Style APIs.- C-Style APIs: Structures, Classes, and Arrays.- Win32 API.- Using C++ Interop.- Using COM.- Exposing Managed Code to COM.- Marshaling to COM Clients.- COM+ Enterprise Services.- COM+ Enterprise Services Transactions.