Chapter 21. Manually Defining COM Types in Source Code
In This Chapter
• Using SDK Tools for Support
• Manually Defining COM Interfaces
• Manually Defining Coclass Interfaces and Event Types
• Manually Defining COM Structures
• Manually Defining COM Enums
• Manually Defining COM Classes
• Avoiding the Balloon Effect
In an ideal world, a .NET definition of every COM interface, class, enum, and so on, would exist somewhere in a Primary Interop Assembly that’s readily available. Furthermore, every definition would be completely usable in every .NET language, no matter how non-standard it may be. Of course, this is not the world we live in, but there are a variety of things we can do when a desired Primary Interop Assembly does not exist.
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