Jeff,

>> Yes. The COM architecture is no longer used in .NET - .NET components are
>> called web services and run under the CLR (Common Language Runtime).

COM is still used by .NET, if you look at the IL disassembly at specific portions of the BCL you will see that they are making calls through the COM interopability layer to COM interfaces, much the same way that their is a dependance on DLL entry points.

>> Legacy COM and COM+ components can still be called from .NET apps using
>> assemblies or something.

Again its not specifically assemblies that are responsible for this but the COM interopability layer used in assemblies.

Neil