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How Programmable Objects Work

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How Programmable Objects Work

How do programmable objects work? How do the CDO libraries offer their powerful ability to create, manage, and render messaging objects?

This appendix provides a veryshort introduction to the Microsoft® Component Object Model (COM), Automation, and the OLE programmability interface IDispatch. For complete details, see the "COM and ActiveX Object Services" section of the Microsoft Platform SDK.

You do not need to understand this material in order to use the CDO libraries.