Explore COM Interoperability, also known as COM Interop. COM Interop is the means to which COM objects can be used in a .NET application and how .NET objects can be built to appear to be COM objects.
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.NET Delegate Event Model vs COM Connection Points
Take a dip into how the Connection Points Event Handling mechanism in Classic COM Components can be used by .NET applications to receive event Notifications via the COM Interop.
Understanding Classic COM Interoperability w/.NET Apps
Aravind, who contributed mightily to the COM interoperability chapter of the Microsoft Press "Inside C#" book, writes this fantastic tutorial on how to use COM components from your .NET C# applications!
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

Services Made Easy
Discover how to easily create and add WIN32 Services in .NET. You’ll also discover the Topshelf toolkit.

Working with Configuration Files and Visual Basic
Learn how to store, modify, and retrieve information from a configuration file in Visual Basic.

Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.