Mankan, having been sheltered from .NET thus far, i have a few questions related to the runtime architecture with regard to pre-existing COM stds, specifically:

- do .NET classes expose public interfaces derived from IUnknown?
- automation, and dual interfacing capabilities
- hosting options; COM+ or other surrogates
- registry or COM+ application registry dependence (guid, clsid, appid, etc.)

i guess the simple answer if it all fits together nicely is that it's all supported; but if there are keynote differences that you can think of without digging through whitepapers - i'd really enjoy getting some feedback on it.

tia.