Hey man, I *am* a subscriber! I just need to stop skipping straight to Markus' articles. :)
I am also surprised at how long some of this stuff has taken to become "popular". I am also surprised that someone didn't come up with a way to make this possible 10 years ago...
>You might want to pick up the latest issue of Code and read my editorial. I discussed the whole service model in some detail...
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>As far as COM goes, I think it's not dead just being relegated as a lower level technology that you may or may not have to mess with directly. COM will have to continue to work as it does today - hell, Windows uses COM extensively.
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>OTOH, I think it's a good thing that it's going that route, because there are just too many things wrong with the COM model (particular the threading issues) to make for a reliable scalable platform. We'll see how .NET will really change that, but the main issues - threading and deployment - at least seem to have been addressed.
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