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I have gotten permission from Fawcette to dry run one of my two VSLive! presentations (with different slide template, etc), the Advanced COM Interop with C# at the next meeting of Beantown.NET, which is February 3rd at 5:30 PM. I have tried to go much more code intensive in this one versus theory so if you saw this a few years ago, its way different!

Many C# developers are finding that they need to inter-operate with existing legacy COM components from their C# applications. There are profound differences between the COM and the CLR model and thus COM Interop out of the box doesn’t always do what the C# developer expects. We’ll review Runtime Callable Wrappers (RCWs) and COM Callable Wrappers (CCWs) and then quickly look at code-focused ways of improving your Interop experience.