Is CTS (Common Type System) the same as COM (Component Object Model)?

[John Wen]

Hello

Question: Is CTS the same as COM? Or is CTS simply the .NET version of COM function? Is CTS simply the "reference" "Object" Systeml?

There are 3 questions here and hopefully please answer yes or no with detailed explanations for each of the 3 questions. Thank you for your kind and invaluable help.

Best regards
John Wen
3 - 7 - 08

 

[cjard]

Contrast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Type_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model