[Info-vax] BridgeWorks

[Chris Townley]

On 28/07/2024 00:10, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/27/2024 6:00 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>> Sure does. As an Intel engineer said to me: "COM is not only a weird
>> meta-API designed to contort your code into forms where you'd have to
>> re-write from scratch to run it on anything else. It does that job fine,
>> but it also has positive features."
> 
> Classic joke: how can one rely on a technology build upon IUnknown.
> 
>> Writing COM components was a /lot/ harder than consuming them. Microsoft
>> decided to replace it with .NET, over twenty years ago. They tried to
>> bring it back in WinRT, but that did not achieve significant acceptance
>> or market share, and is dead.
> 
> So true.
> 
> Using COM components in any language but C++ is super easy. Writing
> COM components in C++ requires an expert. I don't know how it was
> in VB6.
> 
> .NET does support COM, but using COM for pure .NET solutions does
> not make much sense. Plain CLR & CTS provides a good replacement
> for inproc COM. And various remoting/WCF provides a good replacement
> for remote server COM.
> 
> Arne

I always worried about copying DCL .com files onto a PC, as the 
antivirus software would always class them as 'dodgy'


-- 
Chris