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Is it possible to publish COM enumerated type through .NET assembly?

Asked by ccbuilder in C# Programming Language, Assembly Programming Language, DCOM

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Hello,

I'm trying find best solution for the following problem. I have a lot of old COM components. Many of them are used in new .NET projects (C#) through automatically generated interops. For some widely used COM components (like logging) I want to create .NET wrapper, that would be referenced from the other .NET projects.
COM object provides some methods. Some parameters are enumerated types, defined in the COM. Let's say we have Log method and one of its parameters is enum Severity. Now, I created .NET class wrapper for the COM. It instantiates and configures the logging object and so on. It has method Log, that calls matching method of the COM object. I need to add Severity as the parameter of that wrapper method.
Problem is, that every project, using the new .NET wrapper has to reference the COM object as well, to get the Severity enumerated type. Otherwise, it can't call the Log method of the C# wrapper.
I would like to have some way to "publish" the enumerated type from COM on the .NET assembly, so that all necessary information are in that assembly and there's no need to reference the COM from other projects. And I don't want to reimplement the enum as new type and do the translation between them.
Is there some way to achieve this? I'm imagining something like an attribute, that would say to .NET: "make this type from the referenced assembly available in this assembly". Or do you see some other way around this problem?

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