.NET over COM??!

[_ra]

Is COM being replaced by .NET (CLR -common runtime lang.) ??

[Brad Jones]

The answer I have alreasy received to this question is --> No. COM is still alive and availalbe. (I've asked numerous product managers at Microsoft just to see what they would say)

.NET makes it easier to avoid COM. When it can't be avoided, it makes it easier to interact with COM.

-Brad!

[_ra]

Let me rephrase this question " Is Microsoft currently phasing out COM in favor of CLR (“Common Language Runtime”), part of its .NET platform." ??

[Brad Jones]

I posed your question to the experts.
The answer:

"We are not phasing out COM+"
per Tony Goodhew, Developer Division product manager, Microsoft Corp.


Tony would know.

Brad!

[_ra]

what about straight COM technology?
he said "..COM+"

[Chopper]

COM+ is thoroughly dependant on COM as an add-on for COM.
Besides, all this big talk about COM getting obsolete has no foundation. After all, Windows itself is buit on COM interfaces, except the stuff to run in priority ring 0 (the kernell itself).

Regards,
Vitaly

Vitaly@cylon.ie

[cyberninja]

will die

[Virtuality]

That's like asking, will electric cars make roads obsolete.