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Has .NET made raw COM and DCOM programming redundant?

Has the introduction of the .net framework made raw programming in COM and DCOM redundant ?

(Except for using some COM+ services, e.g. for transaction management through the System.EnterpriseServices namespace)

Solution

  • Not yet, because the OS is still unmanaged.

    If MS finally do what their labs have been talking about for years and produce a fully managed OS then it will.

    That OS won't be backwards compatible though. They would have to produce managed versions of Office, IE, etc first. They will have to produce a virtual machine to run unmanaged apps.

    The pain would be something similar to the move from Mac OS9 to OSX.