Coms

Tell me what are COMS

[mavrick]

hi all

I am just about to start a new job, and one of the programming lang. (i think) they are using are COMS.

Please could somebody tell me about COMS and how to get to know it better..

Thanks

[raywood]

It's not a language, it's a model. COM stands for Component Object Model.

Essentially a COM object is a piece of code that can be used by other programs. It usually can't stand on its own. It has to be called from a program somewhere.

But it can be be used by any program that needs it to do something. It's a Microsoft idea. Their website has tons of info all about it.

ray

[TheNige]

as Raywood said, COM is a technology. COM objects can be written in lots of languages such as VB, C++, and even the new .Net languages (with COM wrappers). Once you make the COM component you load it into the Component manager and you can then call it from any application using something like

myCom = server.createobject("myCom.DoStuff")

COM comes in handy if you need the application do to special things and also the code can be set up to run as a certain user such as a domain account other than what your calling code is running as.

[mavrick]

thanks guys