http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jgalasyn/archive/2010/06/18/com-technical-overview-topic-is-live.aspxAs one of my first undertakings in my new group, I wrote a little introductory overview of classic COM, which is now live: COM Technical Overview . Before this, we didn’t have a central topic that brings a bunch of fundamental ideas together, so now ween-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jgalasyn/archive/2010/06/18/com-technical-overview-topic-is-live.aspx#10036503Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:18:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10036503Colin<p>... and support from COM instantiation by CLSID in Silverlight 5 prior to Windows 8 would help get to the new goodness you&#39;re talking about.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10036503" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jgalasyn/archive/2010/06/18/com-technical-overview-topic-is-live.aspx#10036501Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:14:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10036501Colin<p>I&#39;ve been to both COM Heaven and COM Hell, implementing runtime regular and IDispatch aggregation systems, dynamic object trees from Compound Files, etc...</p> <p>COM Remoting is one of the ugliest things from a asynchronous and networking standpoint. &nbsp;Will Windows 8 feature firewall-friendly WS-*-like remoting of COM?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10036501" width="1" height="1">