Comments on: Useless Error Messages http://docwhat.org/2009/05/useless-error-messages/ Some men are discovered; others are found out Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:37:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nick http://docwhat.org/2009/05/useless-error-messages/comment-page-1/#comment-6244 Nick Sun, 31 May 2009 14:50:45 +0000 http://docwhat.gerf.org/?p=367#comment-6244 Your best bet when working with foreign DLLs in .NET is to create a COM interop wrapper assembly in C#. Basically you build a C# class that wraps the functionality you need from your COM DLLs, which is sometimes easiest as a static class. You may want to refer to this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/ComHard.aspx However, there are also plenty of examples of open source code that do COM interop. Nick Your best bet when working with foreign DLLs in .NET is to create a COM interop wrapper assembly in C#. Basically you build a C# class that wraps the functionality you need from your COM DLLs, which is sometimes easiest as a static class.

You may want to refer to this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/ComHard.aspx

However, there are also plenty of examples of open source code that do COM interop.

Nick

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