COM and .NET - Links to documents and tutorials

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Making C# .NET COM Servers

• Exposing .NET Components to COM - A method of calling .NET functions from a COM enabled non .NET environment through a COM callable wrapper
• Building COM Servers in .NET - Learn the fundamental principles of building COM DLL and EXE Servers using a .NET language
• Build and Deploy a .NET COM Assembly

Merge all dependencies into one .NET COM component

• ILMerge
• ILMerge download
• Merging .NET assemblies using ILMerge

Locating Assemblies

• How the Runtime Locates Assemblies

• Step 1: Examining the Configuration Files
• Step 2: Checking for Previously Referenced Assemblies
• Step 3: Checking the Global Assembly Cache
• Step 4: Locating the Assembly through Codebases or Probing

Loading Assemblies from code

• How to: Load Assemblies into an Application Domain (Preferred)
• Assembly..::.LoadFrom Method

General links about COM how it works and how to register components

• COM and DCOM Registry Settings for CE 5.0
• CLSID Key

Component Object Model (General)

• DCOM Architecture
• Creating and Registering COM Components with LocalService
• Inside Distributed COM: Type Libraries and Language Integration

Trouble shooting

If it won't work and you get strange errors like

• CreateObject (-2146233079 automation error).
• 80010002 "Call was canceled by the message filter"
• 80131522
  

Try putting try/catch handlers in your .NET code (especially the constructor) with tracing...
Use Trace.WriteLine(e); and Sysinternals Dbgview.exe to trace what is happening