Is there a Method to the madness?

As we have come to expect, COM uses its own terminology to describe the member functions and associated data of a Dispatch Interface.  A member function is formally referred to as a Method, and the associated data is deemed a Property.  Therefore, an application can call the Methods of an Object, and read/write the Properties of an Object.

There are three Property procedures available to manipulate an Interface Property: GET, LET and SET.  Methods are initiated with a CALL.  We'll describe each of these in more depth as we progress through the COM programming section.

 

See Also

COM Programming Introduction

COM initialization