Pierre-Emmanuel Dautreppe

I just assisted to the last VISUG session giben by Kurt Claeys about entites in WCF, meaning how we can use together WCF and Entity Framework in a SOA world.
Above the classical things about WCF (separation about Address, Binding and Contract, ...) Kurt also presented some frameworks like EFContrib (a framework using PostSharp), Entity BAG (aka Perseus) and EF Poco Adapter.
He also gave some hints about vNext, the next version of ADO.NET / Entity Framework. [Plus]

I will describe here an interesting scenario : what can you do when you have a VSTO project but that you want to open the file from command line (from another process) but anyway being able to access the classical VSTO method and members like Globals.ThisWorkbook, ...

Here we will see :
- how to open a VSTO document from command line (ie how to open an excel document from command line) and getting interop object
- an explanation about why you cannot convert this interop object to a VSTO object
- how you can get use of .NET remoting to access to the VSTO objects inside of your document
- and finally how you can achieve the same result using WCF [Plus]