Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the .NET Framework, Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 70-320) By Amit Kalani, Priti Kalani
Table of Contents
Terms you'll need to understand:
Managed code
Platform invoke
Runtime callable wrapper (RCW)
Unmanaged code
Techniques you'll need to master:
Instantiating and invoking existing COM/COM+ components by creating a runtime callable wrapper (RCW)
Using platform invoke (PInvoke) to invoke some common Windows API calls
In this chapter, you learn about the tools and techniques necessary to call unmanaged code COM components and Windows API code from the .NET Framework. Basically, the process of using unmanaged code from various server components is similar. I'll use Web services for most of the examples in this chapter; however, you can follow the same process for other .NET applications.