can you develop a COM Wrapper version that can run with wpf and corert?

[unofficialdev]

Hello, that's great. this is what I was looking for. I am a wpf app developer, can you develop a COM Wrapper version that can run with wpf and corert? It would be great if that could be done

[kant2002]

@unominhtuan this project is for testing implementation of COM support in NativeAOT. Actual progress can be monitored here https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/306

This is slowly moving to some progress, so cross your fingers

[kant2002]

@unofficialdev I think I can say what can be done right now. Here known and unknown dragons.

Known dragons is

• Marshal.ReleaseComObject and Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject does not work with ComWrappers. This would not be implemented in CoreCLR. Probably same for NativeAOT, so you have to maintain fork with simple change.
• WPF has to be modified to support for ComWrappers. They are slow to react on the matter, so chances that it would be slow process. You can show your interest by expressing why you need this here. Also if any PR appears for ComWrappers support, also express your interested in having these changes landed.

Unknown dragons

• WPF uses C++/CLI which I still does not hit, so not sure how it is affects NativeAOT. That can be big problem down the road. Maybe not and limited form of WPF can run with NativeAOT.