Here's something I just wandered across you may find useful. This is the formal design of COM, authored by Microsoft and Digital. This version is a copied and ziped 200-page Word document.
Component Object Model Specification
I found it here.
Component Object Model Specification
I found it here.
In a sense of preservation of threads i ran across this. (Didnt know it was here!). I think someone was looking for this a while ago...
For beginners.. here is a good page from the specification to that diagramatically explains how com loads an object class for use.
(I wish i had this while learning to how to develop COM objects ;) )
(I wish i had this while learning to how to develop COM objects ;) )