hi



i m confused  abt object and component.sometimes it seems  both are the 

same things, and sometimes different.Also whats COM ?I m not clarified  

whether its a component itself or a technology to create components.

Can someone give me very clear concepts.

thanks

> hi

> 

> i m confused  abt object and component.sometimes it seems  both are the 

> same things, and sometimes different.Also whats COM ?I m not clarified  

> whether its a component itself or a technology to create components.

> Can someone give me very clear concepts.

> thanks



Hi, 

a component is also an object. an object is anything with properties and 

methods. A component is a peice of something larger. The Component Object 

Model shows all the parts of applications in a way that allows programers 

to use the objects from different applications together.

Egs of objects are windows itself, office, then down to word excell etc, 

down to pages, tables etc. 

COM is the systems that allows integration and common structure between 

all these things. 



Hope this helps,

Mike