.NET Development Foundation/Interoperability Classes

Interoperability, Reflection, and Mailing: Classes, interfaces and tools

Classes, Interfaces, and tools

COM interoperability

Exam objective: Expose COM components to the .NET Framework and .NET Framework components to COM

(Refer System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace)

Exposing COM Components to the .NET Framework

First there is an article in the .NET developers guide that covers the first part of this section, see MSDN

Import a type library as an assembly - MSDN

Add references to type libraries

Same link as above, see second paragraph.

Type Library Importer (Tlbimp.exe) - MSDN

Generate interop assemblies from type libraries - MSDN

Imported Library Conversion - MSDN

Imported Module Conversion - MSDN

Imported Type Conversion - MSDN

Imported Member Conversion - MSDN

Imported Parameter Conversion - MSDN

TypeConverter class - MSDN

Create COM types in managed code - MSDN

Compile an interop project - MSDN

Deploy an interop application - MSDN

Exposing .NET Framework Components to COM

The rest of the objectives of that section directly refers to MSDN

Qualify the .NET Framework types for interoperation - MSDN

Apply Interop attributes, such as the ComVisibleAttribute class - MSDN

Package an assembly for COM - MSDN

Deploy an application for COM access - MSDN

Call DLL functions

Exam objective: Call unmanaged DLL functions in a .NET Framework application, and control the marshalling of data in a .NET Framework application.

(Refer System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace)

Platform Invoke - MSDN

Create a class to hold DLL functions - MSDN

Create prototypes in managed code - MSDN

DllImportAttribute class - MSND

Call a DLL function - MSDN

Look for "P/Invoke" on the internet.

A good reference is: http://www.pinvoke.net/

Some short hints:

• For the DllAttribute "CharSet", Logically, CharSet.Auto is the most secure way as this will autodetect the Charset used. The CharSet can be ANSI(Win95/Win98/ME) or Unicode (Win2000/WinXP)
• GetEntryPoint: There could be one tricky question as the EntryPoint states the method that should be called. In case the name of the method used differs from the method to be called, this flag is necessary.

Call a DLL function in special cases, such as passing structures and implementing callback functions

Same link as above

Passing structures - MSDN

Implementing callback functions - MSDN

Create a new Exception class and map it to an HRESULT - MSDN

Default marshaling behavior - MSDN

Marshal data with Platform Invoke - MSDN

Marshal data with COM Interop - MSDN

MarshalAsAttribute class and Marshal class

MarshalAsAttribute class - MSDN

Marshal class - MSDN

Implement Reflection

Exam objective: Implement reflection functionality in a .NET Framework application (refer System.Reflection namespace), and create metadata, Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL), and a PE file by using the System.Reflection.Emit namespace.

Building a custom attribute (annexes)

Assembly class -MSDN

Assembly attributes - MSDN

AssemblyAlgorithmIdAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyCompanyAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyConfigurationAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyCopyrightAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyCultureAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyDefaultAliasAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyDelaySignAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyDescriptionAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyFileVersionAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyFlagsAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyKeyFileAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyTitleAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyTrademarkAttribute class - MSDN

AssemblyVersionAttribute class - MSDN

Info classes

ConstructorInfo class - MSDN

MethodInfo class - MSDN

MemberInfo class - MSDN

PropertyInfo class - MSDN

FieldInfo class - MSDN

EventInfo class - MSDN

LocalVariableInfo class - MSDN

Binder class and BindingFlags - MSDN

MethodBase class and MethodBody class

MethodBase class - MSDN

MethodBody class - MSDN

Builder classes

AssemblyBuilder class - MSDN

ConstructorBuilder class - MSDN

EnumBuilder class - MSDN

EventBuilder class - MSDN

FieldBuilder class - MSDN

LocalBuilder class - MSDN

MethodBuilder class - MSDN

ModuleBuilder class - MSDN

ParameterBuilder class - MSDN

PropertyBuilder class - MSDN

TypeBuilder class - MSDN

Send Electronic mail

Exam objective: Send electronic mail to a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server for delivery from a .NET Framework application.

(Refer System.Net.Mail namespace)

MailMessage class - MSDN

MailAddress class and MailAddressCollection class

MailAddress class - MSDN

MailAddressCollection class - MSDN

SmtpClient class, SmtpPermission class, and SmtpPermissionAttribute class

SmtpClient class - MSDN

SmtpPermission class - MSDN

SmtpPermissionAttribute class - MSDN

Attachment class, AttachmentBase class, and AttachmentCollection class

Attachment class - MSDN

AttachmentBase class - MSDN

AttachmentCollection class - MSDN

SmtpException class, SmtpFailedReceipientException class, and SmtpFailedReceipientsException class

SmtpException class - MSDN

SmtpFailedReceipientException class - MSDN

Please note that there is a typo in the exam objective page here, they use SmtpFailedReceipientException instead of SmtpFailedRecipientException.

SmtpFailedRecipientsException class - MSDN

Same typo then above

SendCompleteEventHandler delegate - MSDN

LinkedResource class and LinkedResourceCollection class

LinkedResource class - MSDN

LinkedResourceCollection class - MSDN

AlternateView class and AlternateViewCollection class

AlternateView class - MSDN

AlternateViewCollection class - MSDN