Monday, December 31, 2007

Visual Basic Fusion: Best Practices to Use Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET Together

Visual Basic Fusion: Best Practices to Use Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET Together
Summary: A Microsoft Visual Basic 6 application can access .NET class libraries, but to do so, it must go through an interoperability layer, known as a client callable wrapper. This wraps the desired .NET class, and exposes it so that it appears as a traditional COM object, which can be used from any environment that can consume COM objects. Learn how to create these wrappers. (18 printed pages)
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