Thread: COM confusion. When should I use it?

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    COM confusion. When should I use it?

    I've been learning about COM in the last few days, and I can see how powerful it is, but I don't really know how often or even where I should use it. Could someone give some examples of when it should be used?
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    The best place to use it is where you have a piece of code that may be used by another language. For instance a file leech program written in C++ that can be invoked from VB or a VB front end package that can be scripted with VBScript...etc

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    Hmmm I never do that sort of thing. Maybe it's not for me.
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