.NET Interoperability and Migration

These books cover issues of fundamental technologies important to .NET's vision of strong interoperability across diverse platforms. They also address issues of migrating to .NET.

Migrating to .NET: A Pragmatic Path to VB.NET, Visual C++ .NET, and ASP.NET

This book gives an introduction to the Microsoft .NET platform and covers the basic concepts of migration. It contains a detailed look on various programming languages and technologies (VB.NET, Visual C++ .NET and ASP.NET) and key differences as well as advantages over their predecessors. The book has detailed steps involved in migration, and it also has a rich set of examples and case studies to cover important aspects of migration like Pre Migration and Post Migration. The last section of the book has coverage of issues related to component migration and interoperability.

The .NET and COM Interoperability Handbook

This book explains the .NET Framework from the perspective of a COM/COM+ programmer. It compares COM/COM+ and .NET. It also shows readers how to use their existing COM/COM+ components from .NET and how to call .NET components from their Win32/COM applications. This is not the kind of cursory coverage of COM interoperability that is found in most .NET Framework books. We delve deep into the subject, covering items such as the effect of the COM Apartment threading model, ActiveX controls, late binding and the impedance mismatch between reference counting in COM and garbage collection in .NET. The book also covers how to use the COM+ Services from a .NET application.