What is the Component Object Model (COM)? Is it language-dependent?

Question

I\'m new to COM, and I don\'t know what it is or why it exists.

Is this a programming methodology like OOP? Do programming languages have to support it? (with some speci

Answer 1

Component Object Model is a standard defined by Microsoft, for a language-independent binary object interface, i.e. it enables different OO languages to pass around objects and call methods on them.