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by imron 1233 days ago
Component object model. It’s a windows thing from the 90’s that still permeates the lower levels of windows programming.
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pjmlp 1233 days ago
Nope, it is the way modern Windows APIs are done since Vista.
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imron 1233 days ago
That doesn’t negate anything I said.
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pjmlp 1233 days ago
The way you phrased it kind of implies it being legacy and we still need to deal with it.
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imron 1233 days ago
It kind of is legacy.

Yes, lower-level modern APIs are written in it, but you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly because there are other abstractions built on those APIs.

This was not as true of Windows programming 20 years ago.

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pjmlp 1233 days ago
As someone that does Windows since version 3.0 I am quite curious what those would be.

Forms and WPF?

Forms is in maintainance mode, and WPF builds on top of COM via DirectX 9.

MFC?

Likewise maintainance mode.

WinRT and UWP/WinUI 2.0?

COM + IInspectable + .NET metadata + AppSandboxing

WinUI 3.0?

COM + IInspectable + .NET metadata

MAUI?

Built on top of WinUI 3.0

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imron 1233 days ago
Not sure how this disagrees with my statement that "you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly because there are other abstractions built on those APIs"
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