Motivation for Creating .NET

It seems that every few years, Microsoft introduces a new set of technologies that promise to be the software development equivalent of the Holy Grail. Each step in this journey has revealed some very significant programming models, while at the same time introducing so many new complexities that developers find themselves somewhat perplexed.

The Benefits and Limits of COM

One of the most important technologies that Microsoft introduced was the Component Object Model (COM). From the beginning, COM solved a very specific problem—how to integrate software. COM was designed to allow applications to share code and information through the use of well-defined interfaces. This was made possible through the use of a binary ...

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