[Mono-list] Will COM be supported?

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
06 Jan 2003 16:28:49 -0500


Hello,

> COM is one of the only ways right now to call back into managed code from
> legacy/unmanaged code.  Will there be another way on mono to interoperate
> with legacy code, or is COM supported?

You can also call back from unmanaged to managed through delegates.

Just pass a delegate to your managed routine with P/Invoke (it will look
like a function pointer to the unmanaged code), invoke it, and it will
magically jump back into managed code.

Miguel