Re: Uses for Screen OCR technology

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"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You assume that its already not exposed. If you are using COM to expose
it, its likely already being done. I have no way of knowing internal
design, but I would strongly guess this is the case as this is how
functionality is usually exposed.

I would say they have all the polictical reasons to do it. MSFT has
said COM is dying a good death and instead they start using it to
develop its killer. If you read RichardG's site you will notice this
has been the trend in general by MSFT. One of the reasons .Net was
being promoted was that COM is too complex and is dead.


Ajay, we both know when a COM component is developed, it is not natural to
start with a a DLL with exported functions and wrap a COM interface around
it. Instead, the DLL itself has a class factory that creates the COM
objects. So if it's not natural for us, why do you think Microsoft would
have done it that way?

..NET exposes COM in a nice way, much like VB exposes COM in a nice way.
It's the nicest bridge possible from the app developer to COM. But it's a
bridge to, not a replacement for, COM.

COM might be dying as a natural result of the migration to managed code, but
to the extent .NET has not caught on as fast as MS had hoped, native C++/COM
are still alive.

-- David


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