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.Net itself has a COM&lt;-&gt;.Net bridge caled Interop. use regasm command line tool to register .Net assembly for use with COM clients.<br />
but even for this to work, you will need .Net framework installed on the system.<br />
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Take a look at .Net documentation on regasm and interop<br />

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.Net itself has a COM<->.Net bridge caled Interop. use regasm command line tool to register .Net assembly for use with COM clients.
but even for this to work, you will need .Net framework installed on the system.

Take a look at .Net documentation on regasm and interop


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All I received from the vendor is a DLL (.NET assembly?) which is compiled for a .NET environment.<br />
Now, are you saying that there is a &quot;regasm&quot; tool (can it be downloaded? or part of visual studio.NET?) that I can can specify commandline parameters to register this .NET assembly for use with COM clients?<br />
Once it is registered, can I use the .NET assembly as if it is a COM server?<br />
Now, how about datatype mismatches and incompatibilities? Do you know of any pre-requisites for a .NET assembly to seamlessly work with COM clients?<br />

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All I received from the vendor is a DLL (.NET assembly?) which is compiled for a .NET environment.
Now, are you saying that there is a "regasm" tool (can it be downloaded? or part of visual studio.NET?) that I can can specify commandline parameters to register this .NET assembly for use with COM clients?
Once it is registered, can I use the .NET assembly as if it is a COM server?
Now, how about datatype mismatches and incompatibilities? Do you know of any pre-requisites for a .NET assembly to seamlessly work with COM clients?


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We need to use an API written to the .NET environment. However, our development environment doesn't subscribe to .NET. But, it fully supports COM framework.<br />
What is a good way for me to access the API written for languages that support .NET?<br />
Is there a COM &lt;-&gt; .NET bridge that is commercially available? Does anyone know of useful links on this subject?
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We need to use an API written to the .NET environment. However, our development environment doesn't subscribe to .NET. But, it fully supports COM framework.
What is a good way for me to access the API written for languages that support .NET?
Is there a COM <-> .NET bridge that is commercially available? Does anyone know of useful links on this subject?

Interfacing with API written for .NET

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).