what is the very core basic of COM in microsoft Technology ?

Answer 1

Component Object Model (COM) is a Microsoft platform for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in any programming language that supports the technology. The term COM is often used in the software development world as an umbrella term that encompasses the OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, COM+ and DCOM technologies. Although COM was introduced in 1993, Microsoft did not begin emphasizing the name COM until 1997.

The essence of COM is a language-neutral way of implementing objects such that they can be used in environments different from the one they were created in, even across machine boundaries. For well-authored components, COM allows reuse of objects with no knowledge of their internal implementation because it forces component implementers to provide well-defined interfaces that are separate from the implementation. The different allocation semantics of languages are accommodated by making objects responsible for their own creation and destruction through reference-counting. Casting between different interfaces of an object is achieved through the QueryInterface() function. The preferred method of inheritance within COM is the creation of sub-objects (called aggregation) to which method calls are delegated.

Although it has been implemented on several platforms, COM is primarily used with Microsoft Windows. COM is expected to be replaced to at least some extent by the Microsoft .NET framework, and support for Web Services through the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Networked DCOM uses binary proprietary formats, while WCF uses XML-based SOAP messaging. COM also competes with CORBA and Java Beans as component software systems.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/02/Basics/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Door/10595?start=21

http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/topics/t.asp?t=340&p=340&h1=340

http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/17201

Answer 2

Com as in .com simply means it's a commercial website:

org = Organization
gov = Government
edu = Education
Etc.

You can find all the definitions online, easy, just search.
Search Microsoft ... and see.

Yours;
Jonnie

PS What I said is right, as far as it goes, but you've got another answerer who might know more than me about your question.
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