Thanks for your help Nathan :) Karl

Thanks Nathan. Do you know of any good COM books to read then? Karl

Hello Im new to this place and quite new to windows programming. I want to start to program with directx and I have read somewhere that you'll need to understand COM programming. And I also read somewhere that COM is getting replaced by .NET. Is it better then to learn .NET instead of COM? Or is it better to stick with COM? What is the difference between COM and .NET anyways? I'll be programming in C++ as I want parts of my application to be portable to linux. Will it be a problem to use C++ with .NET? Thanks Karl