>I think I want to jumpt into the COM pool and beign writing these things, but I have one basic problem. I have done the obligatory Hello World so I must be ready.
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>Now comes thej real problem. What is this thins called COM ? Can I use visual classes or must all classes be non-visual? Can I pass object is and otu of these things? Can I get a cursor return from it?
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Your classes can be either visual or non-visual. However, for business and data objects, I would use the Session class, which can only be defined as a non-visual class. You can pass objects around. You cannot pass cursors. I would look at either ADO or XML.