Reading about COM really takes me back to my VisualBasic (classic) days. I was an inexperienced teenager at the time, and I remember the excitement I'd get when

Reading about COM really takes me back to my VisualBasic (classic) days. I was an inexperienced teenager at the time, and I remember the excitement I'd get when browsing through the different COM controls I could add to my projects, picking some just to see what they did and trying to figure out how to use them (pre-Google and mostly didn't have internet at home at the time). Learning to make my own COM controls and distribute them was highly instructional, if also maddening at times when trying to get the right version of a .DLL registered and installed.