Design Considerations for Interoperation

This section provides design-time considerations that can enhance the transition between managed and unmanaged code.

General Considerations: Describes the differences between managed and unmanaged programming models.
Building COM Components for Interoperability: Describes design-time interoperation strategies for COM components.
Building .NET Framework Components for Interoperation: Describes design-time interoperation strategies for .NET Framework components.

Interoperating with Unmanaged Code: Describes how to use COM interop and platform invoke.
Advanced COM Interop: Describes COM interop concepts and conversion rules.
Interop Marshaling: Describes marshaling for COM interop and platform invoke.