Where can I got the original Microsoft COM specification document?

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Aug 22, 2006, 4:59:21 PM8/22/06

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Years ago you used to be able to download the COM spec. from microsoft.
I think it was known as a "white paper" but I could be wrong about
that. I had it as a word doc at the company I used to work for. It
was excellent and I'd like to look at it again but I can't find it
anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a copy?

Thanks

Simon

Brian Muth

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Aug 22, 2006, 6:06:18 PM8/22/06

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http://tinyurl.com/ebvah

Brian

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Aug 26, 2006, 6:29:08 PM8/26/06

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Thanks very much!
Brian Muth wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/ebvah
>
> Brian

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Aug 26, 2006, 6:32:12 PM8/26/06

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Whoops,

I replied to quickly with my thanks - this is really not what I
wanted...

Is there nobody out there that remembers this document?

Brian Muth

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Aug 27, 2006, 2:09:56 PM8/27/06

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Perhaps this is what you want: http://tinyurl.com/lkn65

Brian

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Aug 28, 2006, 7:33:48 AM8/28/06

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Yes, that is *almost* right! What you've given me here is the contents
stub of the document - i.e. there is no body to it - have you got the
actual full text?

Thanks for checking

Simon

Brian Muth

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Aug 28, 2006, 12:01:32 PM8/28/06

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Like yourself, I was surprised to see this document seemingly disappear from
the Internet. I've been basically trying to Google on your behalf and came
up with the those two links... I didn't appreciate the last one was only the
table of contents.

I believe this document was distributed as part of the Platform SDK or the
MSDN Library. Have you got any old copies lying around?

If I have time, I'll try to load one of my old copies and see if I can
locate it for you.

Brian

Brian Muth

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Aug 28, 2006, 3:38:19 PM8/28/06

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I loaded the Platform SDK from 1999, but had no luck finding the spec.

Sorry!

Brian

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Aug 28, 2006, 5:37:00 PM8/28/06

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Thanks again for checking Brian,

good tip for a place to look anyway - I'll see what I can find in the
collection of msdn CDs we have at work if I can handle the Bureaucracy
of getting access to them.

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Sep 27, 2006, 11:59:27 AM9/27/06

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I found it here
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/ftp/emjordan/COM/

and have downloaded it locally.

renegade_m...@yahoo.co.uk

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Sep 27, 2006, 12:02:38 PM9/27/06

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BTW I stumbled across the document because a search string I stuck into
google got a narrow enough number of matching pages/docs.

I have just tried again with the following actual phrase from the spec:

"Component Object Model Programming Interface" and I get quite a few
decent
hits (posting this knowledge in case the above link fails in the future)

emti...@gmail.com

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