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CDO (Collaborative Data Objects), CDONTS <Next>
COM (Component Object Model)
A Microsoft architecture (and set of libraries for C++, Visual Basic and Java) that is used to create binary objects that can be invoked by many languages via a COM library.
C++ objects are quite handy if you are a C++ programmer BUT they are tightly coupled to C++ that is to say a Visual Basic program could not create a C++ object. Other C++ programs could create and use a C++ object only if they had the source code to include in their C++ programs.
See COM+ for the major revisions and additions that were made to COM in Win2000.