Chapter 7. Legacy COM Controls

Most Visual Basic 6 programmers have developed a library of COM controls, and are rightly concerned that when they move to .NET all this work will be lost.

Microsoft has made a commitment to ensure that these legacy components are usable from within .NET applications, and (perhaps less importantly) that .NET components are easily callable from COM.

In this chapter, you will add a relatively simple COM control to the NorthWindWindows application.