COM wrapper around a .NET assembly

[Graham Blandford]

Hi all,

Wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.

Due to time-constraints, it looks lie I may have to abandon using VB.NET
development in favour of my more familiar VB6 environment. The issue I have
is, that I have to use a .NET assembly (DLL) to access data from a database.

I understand it is possible to create a wrapper using COM which would then
make it available to VB6. Although this isnt ideal, it might help me, in
this partiular case, get to where I need to go a lot quicker. I'm not
familiar with COM, but it may still be less of a learning curve than
..NET....

Any help would be happily received.

Thanks,
Graham

[JLW]

Re: COM wrapper around a .NET assembly

Do a Google for COM Interop with VB.NET, you can compile your assembly to
act as an ActiveX COM object that VB6 can use without a problem.

HTH
JLW

"Graham Blandford" <graham.blandfo rd@sympatico.ca > wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.
>
> Due to time-constraints, it looks lie I may have to abandon using VB.NET
> development in favour of my more familiar VB6 environment. The issue I[/color]
have[color=blue]
> is, that I have to use a .NET assembly (DLL) to access data from a[/color]
database.[color=blue]
>
> I understand it is possible to create a wrapper using COM which would then
> make it available to VB6. Although this isnt ideal, it might help me, in
> this partiular case, get to where I need to go a lot quicker. I'm not
> familiar with COM, but it may still be less of a learning curve than
> .NET....
>
> Any help would be happily received.
>
> Thanks,
> Graham
>
>
>[/color]

[Val Mazur]

Re: COM wrapper around a .NET assembly

Hi Graham,

Check next KBs about it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817248&Product=vb6

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317535

--
Val Mazur
Microsoft MVP


"Graham Blandford" <graham.blandfo rd@sympatico.ca > wrote in message
news:cAJtc.3636 8$sr3.1211452@n ews20.bellgloba l.com...[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> Wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.
>
> Due to time-constraints, it looks lie I may have to abandon using VB.NET
> development in favour of my more familiar VB6 environment. The issue I
> have
> is, that I have to use a .NET assembly (DLL) to access data from a
> database.
>
> I understand it is possible to create a wrapper using COM which would then
> make it available to VB6. Although this isnt ideal, it might help me, in
> this partiular case, get to where I need to go a lot quicker. I'm not
> familiar with COM, but it may still be less of a learning curve than
> .NET....
>
> Any help would be happily received.
>
> Thanks,
> Graham
>
>
>[/color]