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C# Integration

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Walk-through using Microsoft Visual C#

Visual Studio Community 2013

Create custom control using Windows Forms Control Library

Integrate custom control into PowerBuilder Classic

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• Short for Globally Unique Identifier

• Used by the Windows registry to identify COM DLLs
• Knowing where to look in the registry and having the
correct GUID yields a lot information about a COM object
(i.e., information in the type library, its physical location, etc.)

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• Interfaces add a plug and play like architecture into your

applications. Interfaces help define a contract between
your application and other objects. It indicates what sort
of methods, properties and events are exposed by the
object.

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• Identifies how to expose an interface to COM.

• InterfaceIsIDispatch - Indicates an interface is exposed to COM as a
dispinterface, which enables late binding only.
• InterfaceIsDual is the default value.
• InterfaceIsIUnknown.

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• A delegate is a type that represents references to

methods with a particular parameter list and return type.
• Delegates are used to pass methods as arguments to
other methods.
• Event handlers are nothing more than methods that are
invoked through delegates.

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