Label: COM

Fixing asynchronous COM bug at application startup

My article “Asynchronous COM for Windows Vista and Win7 — memory overwrite bug” is describing an error that appeared in these operation systems. Reliable work of the asynchronous COM was extremely important for the software that was under development (and for sale as well by this time). Multiple appeals to Microsoft with a request to fix

Asynchronous COM for Windows Vista and Win7 – memory overwrite bug

COM technology (Component Object Model) has been developing for almost twenty years and work of the vast majority of system components is still based on it. I think that this will continue in the nearest future. Asynchronous COM is an option of using this technology. Some applications of the early 2000s used it to build

API DLL or COM object? Creating a COM object without registration

One of the major questions that an architector might face creating a multi-component project is how the components will interact. The mechanism of interaction could consist of COM interfaces usage and traditional import / export of functions and classes if we are talking about components that export a set of functions (in fact libraries). The way