Craig’s Musings

In early 2002 Microsoft released .NET 1.0, and it was quite clear that .NET would quickly supplant COM as the mainstream runtime for the Microsoft platform.
Fortunately, .NET provided good (bi-directional) interop with COM (e.g. callable wrappers and interop assemblies). Furthermore, software publishers (ISVs) could produce primary interop assemblies (PIAs) to add functional, deployment and administrative [...]

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