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什么是com,如何使用com（What is com and how to use COM） The goal of this article is to provide a programming guide for programmers who have just come into contact with COM and to help them understand the basic concepts of COM. These include the COM specification profile, the important COM terminology, and how to reuse existing COM components. This article does not cover how to write your own COM objects and interfaces. COM, the component object model, is the abbreviation of the first three letters of Component Object Model. These three letters can be found everywhere in the Windows world today. All the new and emerging technologies that are springing up are based on COM. Various documents are also filled with terms such as COM objects, interfaces, servers, and so forth. Therefore, for a programmer, not only do you have to master the method of using COM, but also thoroughly understand everything about COM. This article describes the underlying operating mechanism of COM and teaches you how to use the COM objects provided by third parties (take the Windows shell component Shell as an example). After reading this article, you can learn how to use the built-in components in the Windows operating system and the COM objects provided by third parties. This article assumes that you are proficient in the C++ language. In the example code, you use a little bit of MFC and ATL, and if youre not familiar with MFC and ATL, thats OK. This article will give you a thorough explanation of the code. This article consists of the following sections: COM - what the hell is that? - what are the main points of the COM standard? What is it designed to solve? Definitions of basic elements - COM terms and meanings of these terms Use and process COM objects - how to create, use, and destroy COM objects Basic interface - describes the IUnknown basic interface and its methods Mastering string processing -- how to handle strings in COM code Applying the COM technology example code, examples are given to i