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Why COM

As you know Microsoft does everything to drive developers to their more or less proprietary .NET Framework. However in the past Microsoft seemed to support software development with any tools not just theirs. With .NET this has changed dramatically. This days the only serious tools considered for software development are build and distributed by Microsoft.

Microsoft does quite a lot to encourage development in the not .NET area and the only place where they accept C is in driver development. Howerver they can not break everything and so there .NET must support COM, because that is what makes one of the biggest successes for Microsoft. And indeed they support COM in both ways. Either using COM from .NET and also allowing .NET languages to develop COM parts.

We do provide a C compiler and one can do COM in plain C If we were able to use COM easily from our tools we could gain much from everything under the Microsoft Sun, and that's quite much.

So we started our journey and here's the first step towards much better COM support

First COM steps

If you like to get an idea about COM, you start with the MSDN docs, and well you probably like to get a good book also and if you like you can start reading pages at: COM programming

COM pages at Microsoft

Start your journey at COM at Microsoft

Books worth buying

The first book is to just get an idea on what COM is, the second is extremly important for interoprability.

Using the Wizard

We start with the most essential implementation. And will enhance this tool over the time. It will be a very important part of our products, to ensure that our customers will still be able to do serious C programming in the new Microsoft Windows world

If you like you can follow us on how to use this new tool