COM (Component Object Model) is a microsoft-developed framework for building and interacting with software components, that are mainly from microsoft. that includes dx11 and even windows api.
you can check if something's an com object if you inspect its header file and the object has to do with IUnknown , which is a base interface (or you could just call it a library/class) for every COM object.
also, there are common methods used with IUnkown, such as Release() and AddRef()
COM Objects
COM (Component Object Model) is a microsoft-developed framework for building and interacting with software components, that are mainly from microsoft. that includes dx11 and even windows api.you can check if something's an com object if you inspect its header file and the object has to do with
IUnknown, which is a base interface (or you could just call it a library/class) for every COM object.also, there are common methods used with IUnkown, such as Release() and AddRef()