... classic COM component. All COM+ components start their life as classic COM components, developed with such tools as ATL, MFC, or Visual Basic 6.0. 2. Create a new COM+ application to host the component. ... 23810/3/2002file://F:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Administrator\Local%20Settings\Temp\Rar$EX0 now a COM+ component and is part of a COM+ application, the client-side code is the same as if the component were still a classic COM component. To prove this point (and test your component), ... viability of existing COM applications. .NET components bear little resemblance to legacy COM components and are not backwards compatible. They can be made to interoperate with COM components but do...