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An Introduction to COM for UMDF Developers

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This paper provides a basic introduction to COM programming as it is used by user-mode driver framework (UMDF) that is part of the Windows Driver Foundation (WDF). The paper is especially intended for kernel-mode driver developers with little or no COM experience, but any developer who is getting started with UMDF should find the content useful.

This information applies to Windows XP and later versions of Windows.

Included in this white paper:

•	A Brief Overview of COM
•	How to Use UMDF COM Objects
•	How to Implement the DLL Infrastructure
•	How to Implement COM Objects

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