Paper Presentation And Seminar Topic For CSE On Component Object Model

COM stands for Component Object Model. It is a Microsoft specification that describes how to create reusable objects for programmers working in a Win32 programming environment. This makes it easy to develop objects that can be distributed independently of an application program file. In earlier versions of VB or other windows programming environment, the COM under other names such as OLE Server or Activex Server. Components and Objects are used to develop an application. Since many languages have the ability to include objects in source code, why should you use COM? COM is the foundation of most things that Microsoft does. Without COM ,Visual Basic wouldn’t work, nor would Windows, SQL Server, or any number of Microsoft products. The true test of Microsoft’s confidence in COM is that its applications are based on COM technology. Word 2000 and Excel 2000 are based heavily on COM, as are many other Microsoft applications.