COM Class Vs. Sn.exe, Gacutil.exe and Regasm.exe

[Guest]

There seems to be two ways of creating a COM in .NET

1) Select the COM Class template

2) Create a class and then use Sn.exe, Gacutil.exe, and Regasm.exe to assign the assembly to GAC and COM to registry

I know that COM Class option is a lot easier to use. However, is there any drawbacks from using this instead of option two? Is it suggested that you rather use option 2) even it's a lot more tedious

Thanks for info.

 

[Sam Gentile [MVP - C#/.NET]]

I don't know what you mean by "create a COM." 1 and 2 are completely
different. 1 creates an Unmanaged COM component that executes on the
unmanaged heap. 2) creates a Com Callable Wrapper (CCW) such that COM can
call into .NET code.

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/bridge.asp
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframew...brary/en-us/dndotnet/html/useframewktools.asp

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There seems to be two ways of creating a COM in .NET:

1) Select the COM Class template.

2) Create a class and then use Sn.exe, Gacutil.exe, and Regasm.exe to

assign the assembly to GAC and COM to registry.

I know that COM Class option is a lot easier to use. However, is there any

drawbacks from using this instead of option two? Is it suggested that you
rather use option 2) even it's a lot more tedious?