> Anyone know why WIA has not been moved to .Net?  As best as I can tell,
> the current WIA (WIA automation) is a pre-XP designed API.  Yes, I know
> about the com interop stuff - it does not work for the real world.
>
> Are there any inexpensive alternatives? I worked for a company that
> purchased 3rd party components and after going through about 4 of them
> we concluded the WIA win32 stuff was better. But our products are in
> .Net and does not seem to be any good alternatives.