When I said COM was dead, it was on context of the fact that Microsoft is not evolving COM. COM+ is not COM, just like ASP.NET is not ASP, etc. While you will be able to use COM objects and create COM objects for many years to come, it is not stategic to Microsoft while .NET is (which is based on COM+, not COM). Web Services also will be a trend away from COM/DCOM. That does not mean developers will not create COM objects or use COM objects for a long time, they will. Saying a technology is dead these days is really saying that it is not evolving, but doesn't mean it will go away anytime soon. Hope this clarifies the context of my statements.

Ken


>>A few months back I attended a User Group Meeting where Ken Levy was speaking on XML. He mentioned that "COM was dead". He continued to compare COM with DDE - saying that it's still available but no one is using it.
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>>I don't quite understand why he would say this - do you?
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>Only in the sense that XML will be used to pass data back and forth instead of COM. However, much of .Net is based on COM. In fact, it was originally called COM+ 2.0. In the full sense of COM, it is very much alive.