Is COM (ATL) dead ? - Visual Basic .NET

Bartholomew Simpson

New to this whole .net fangled thing. been programming C/C++ for donkeys
though ...

Need to interface legacy C++ code with a VB6 front end and it looks like
I need to write some ATL COM wrappers. Is it worth me learning how to
write ATL COM objects - or is this a dead technology ?

Jun 25 '07 #1

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New to this whole .net fangled thing. been programming C/C++ for donkeys
though ...

Need to interface legacy C++ code with a VB6 front end and it looks like
I need to write some ATL COM wrappers. Is it worth me learning how to
write ATL COM objects - or is this a dead technology ?

Not as long as "native" executables compiled by VB2005 contain the MSIL
version of the code that can be so easily decompiled...

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Jun 25 '07 #2

Mr. Arnold

"Bartholomew Simpson" <12**********@terrace.comwrote in message
news:9v******************************@bt.com...

New to this whole .net fangled thing. been programming C/C++ for donkeys
though ...

Need to interface legacy C++ code with a VB6 front end and it looks like I
need to write some ATL COM wrappers. Is it worth me learning how to write
ATL COM objects - or is this a dead technology ?

It may help you. I always like to pillage and plunder myself.

http://www.codeproject.com/atl/

Jun 25 '07 #3

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