Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

18.2. Component Object Library

Naturally, nowadays we don't have to put software into the machine using console switches and enter 11011….etc to load our programs. So even through COM is a BLOB, we have COM APIs that let us build and use the BLOB components. The Component Object Library is a system component that provides the mechanics of COM. The Component Object Library provides the ability to use IUnknown calls across processes; it also encapsulates all the "legwork" associated with launching components and establishing connections between components. Typically, when an application creates a component object, it passes the CLSID of that component-object class to the Component Object Library. The Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for object ...