About this Article:
An article in the February 2003 issue on the basics of calling .NET COM components from Visual FoxPro introduced you to creating .NET components, exposing them to COM, and then calling the COM component from Visual FoxPro. This article expands on those original concepts by demonstrating more complex interop scenarios. This article and the next several articles in this series look at a few more advanced features of COM interop, beginning with a close look at passing complex objects between Visual FoxPro and .NET.
Rick Strahl is president of West Wind Technologies based in Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application development and tools with a focus on Visual FoxPro, .NET, and Visual Studio. Rick is author of West Wind HTML Help Builder and West Wind Web Connection, a powerful and widely used Web application framework for Visual FoxPro. He's also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and a frequent contributor to magazines and books. His book, Internet Applications with Visual FoxPro 6.0, is published by Hentzenwerke Publishing. http://www.west-wind.com rstrahl@west-wind.com
Keyword Tags: Application Development, COM - Component Object Model, Database Development, Development, Integration, Microsoft, Microsoft Visual FoxPro, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft .NET Framework, Software Development