Course
Skills Expanded
.NET Interoperability Fundamentals
Managed code is great, but sometimes .NET code must call native code, such as Windows API DLLs or COM components; this course will show you how.
What you'll learn
Managed code is great, but sometimes .NET code must call native code, such as Windows API DLLs or COM components. The course explores most options for interop, from P/Invoke, to COM and even C++/CLI. Best practices are spread throughout the course. A deeper understanding of COM mechanisms provides a better experience and the ability to solve issues should they arise. This course should be helpful for any .NET developer that must introp with native code (and vice versa).
Table of contents
Introduction
14mins
P/Invoke: The Basics
35mins
P/Invoke: Digging Deeper
54mins
COM Interop: Foundations
57mins
COM Interop: Digging Deeper
58mins
- Overview 1m
- IUnknown in .NET 2m
- Demo: IUnknown in .NET 4m
- Memory Management 4m
- Demo: Memory Management 5m
- Interop With no Type Library 2m
- Demo: Interop With no Type Library 9m
- Dynamic Dispatch 2m
- Demo: Dynamic Dispatch 9m
- Exposing .NET Type as COM Classes 4m
- Demo: Exposing .NET Types as COM Classes 8m
- Demo: Consuming .NET Types as COM Classes 5m
- Summary 1m
COM Interop: Threading
48mins
- Overview 1m
- Processes and Threads 2m
- COM and Threading 2m
- Threading and Apartments 4m
- Process and Apartments 3m
- Objects and Apartments 5m
- Apartments Examples 7m
- COM Apartments and the CLR 3m
- Demo: Apartments - The Code 3m
- Demo: Apartments - 1 5m
- Demo: Apartments - 2 4m
- Demo: Apartments - 3 4m
- Demo: Apartments - 4 3m
- Both and the FTM 3m
- Summary 2m
Interop With C++/CLI
49mins
