Re: Calling VB.net from C++

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:54:01 -0400
Message-ID:
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joshturner1967 <joshturner1967@gmail.com> wrote:

On Oct 9, 9:36 am, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

What you do is register your .NET assembly as a COM server. See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zsfww439.aspx


I tried letting the compiler do it


Letting which compiler do what?

and by doing that it allowed me to
do com calls to it through a legacy system com call process - This
does nothing fancy other than make normal com calls based upon your
input


Are there "abnormal" COM calls, as opposed to normal ones? What else
besides "making normal COM calls" do you expect to be able to do?

I also tried Regasm.exe but that did not do anything either.


What did you expect it to do, and in what respects did it fail to meet
your expectations?

In fact
I first tried it on the location of the compiled dll and then put the
fully qualified path into the #import statement


You don't #import a .NET DLL. You use TlbExp tool to generate a type
library from said DLL, and #import that.
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