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		pjmlp on April 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows 11 Trash Party My pet peeve is COM, the idea in abstract is quite good, the tooling besides VB 6 and C++/CX, not so much. Even with .NET we need a whole book on COM interop to actually understand how they go together, and now CsWinRT has rendered most of it outdated.

wslh on April 18, 2023 [–]

Regarding COM, we created pretty advanced tools to hook/intercept it [1]. It is a good abstraction as you said. DCOM is a mess though.

[1] https://blog.nektra.com/main/2015/06/11/remotebridge-is-now-...

pjmlp on April 18, 2023 | [–]

Interesting!

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