Talk:OLE Automation

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on July 20, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] Single/multi and in-proc/out-of-proc

These distinctions apply to all of COM, not just Automation, so I believe it isn't worth mentioning here. - Sikon 06:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cleanup

Removed the snotty opinion, replaced with a bulletproof statement. It probably needs a source.

Predictably, such These solutions only work on Windows.

I also completed this sentence, which was chopped on 26 July 2006: OLE_Automation&diff=prev&oldid=65982021 (I don't actually know if this is true.)

Object models are presented to automation controllers as type libraries, wih their interfaces described in ODL.

OLE originally was the acronym for object linking and embedding. This applied to version 1 created in 1991. This was made obsolete by version 2 in 1993. Source: Inside OLE Second Edition Kraigs Brockschmidt published in 1995.

  • And then its original meaning was restored. And OLE Automation is now known simply as Automation. Source: see article for the source. - Sikon 16:14, 6 April 2007 (UTC)