Chapter 13. COM and Windows Interoperability
IN BRIEF
Anyone who has ever done a significant amount of work with COM (Component Object Model) knows that the intentions of the standard were great, but the implementation fell short of the desired solution.
The goal of COM was to create a solution that would enable developers to create separate, self-contained components that could then be employed by developers using different programming languages in other environments. The actual solution did indeed provide that framework, but that framework has many limitations. The .NET Framework removes quite a few of those limitations.
It would be extremely easy for us to assume that COM is dead and that we don't need to concern ourselves with it. Unfortunately, ...
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