Re: Uses for Screen OCR technology

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"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think I mistook you to have stated that .NET is implemented exclusively
with COM. Certainly Microsoft is not going to rewrite Win32 or COM
interfaces that already exist to expose operating system functionality,
but
rather will write wrappers that call the existing functions or interfaces
and expose them in a manner consistent with the .NET framework.

Correct. But the point is MSFT did not have to use COM to implement
functionality in .Net, even partly. You can go directly to Win32 w/o
COM. Either they were sloppy or simply couldnt live without it. Keep in
mind this is far different than providing support for COM in .Net.

Ajay,
In theory I agree, but if I recall correctly, there are several areas where
operating sytem functionality is exposed through COM interfaces but not
through the Win32 API. In those specific cases it would have not have been
possible to go directly to the Win32 API.

PS: It's not "sloppy", just "leveraging existing code"! ;)

-Pete


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