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ASP DOT Net - Interoperability - Managed Code to Unmanged Code - Missing Piece.

Simply put, interoperability is the process of allowing codes or assembly written within the ASP Dot Net Framework to be called by unmanaged code or Win32 Apps. To bring this closer to real life situation -  I am part of a team working on a Delphi based - Windows Messaging centric - closer to rocket science code - kind of application. The whole thing looked like magic to me at my first encounter and I could not  imagine anybody sitting down and coming up with that kind of architecture. Over time, I realized it was not as difficult or magical as I initially thought but nonetheless, I still give kudos to the initial architects of the system - the guys are really smart and to boil it down, it comes to doing asynchronous programming  where execution of certain codes is not directly at the instigation of the user but rather based on events controlled by the operating system and cleverly managed by the Windows messaging system as well as COM implementation. I am actually...