Chapter Two. Comparing COM and .NET
If you understand COM already, understanding .NET will not be nearly as difficult as you might think. Both .NET and COM are enabling technologies that make it simple for you to create and use programming language-independent software components that can be used across process and machine boundaries. In my COM classes at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), I would use the analogy of a software bus (the software equivalent of the hardware bus on most computers) to introduce this idea to my students. The idea behind this software bus is that you can “plug” software components into any machine on your network and those components are available for use (subject to security constraints) by any client ...
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