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My question is directed towards developers who are familiar with COM. I am currently writing my college thesis which is partially about Microsoft COM.
Please support your answers with facts as much as possible! Thank you.
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Component Object Model (COM) COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact. COM is the foundation technology for Microsoft's OLE (compound documents) and ActiveX (Internet-enabled components) technologies.
COM is still in wide use today, although it's considered an older cousin to the . NET Framework. Many technologies you rely on, and use with PowerShell, are still based on COM.
Provides classes that are used to implement the run-time and design-time behavior of components and controls. This namespace includes the base classes and interfaces for implementing attributes and type converters, binding to data sources, and licensing components.
Yes.
COM is still core to the way Windows works. Wherever a C-style api won't suffice, COM is the next step to expose an object model. And yes, Store apps are COM servers.
COM is native code, it adds very little overhead and is usable from practically any language that was ported to Windows.
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It is not essential anymore to have to know COM to write programs that run on Windows. Lots of work was done to wrap it and make it friendlier. The language projections in Store language runtimes are notable, there are very few traces of the underlying COM code visible. Relegating it to a status that's comparable to learning assembly language programming.
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