A Brief Overview of COM
A COM object encapsulates data and exposes public methods that applications can use to instruct the object to perform various tasks. COM objects are similar to the objects used by other OOP models, especially C++. However, COM differs in some important ways from conventional C++ programming.
- Language independence
COM is not based on a particular programming language; it’s a binary standard. Technically, COM objects can be implemented with any of several languages, including C. As a practical matter, C++ provides the most straightforward way to implement COM objects and is the language that is normally used for UMDF drivers.
- Object implementation and class relationships
COM objects are normally implemented as C++ classes, but ...
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