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Microsoft is pleased to announce the general availablilty of DCOM98 for Microsoft Windows® 98, version 1.3.

DCOM98 1.3 extends the support for Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) for Microsoft Windows 98. The DCOM wire protocol transparently provides support for reliable, secure, and efficient communication between COM components such as ActiveX® controls, scripts, and Java applets residing on different machines in a LAN, a WAN, or on the Internet. With DCOM, your application can be distributed across locations that make the most sense to you and to the application.

Note DCOM98 1.3 is intended for Windows 98 only.

DCOM98 1.3 improves upon the DCOM in Windows 98 in the following ways:

• Provides support for Microsoft Visual Basic® 6.0 user-defined data types.


• The remote procedure call (RPC) now tries multiple IP addresses.


• The RPC window no longer makes the desktop unresponsive when new applications are launched.


• Applications may call OleInitialize and OleUninitialize multiple times.


• Performance has been improved when committing a root storage with a very large compound file.


• Multiple instances of Visual Basic 4 executables may be shut down in any order.

For more information about these enhancements, please see the DCOM98 1.3 Release Notes.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to January 2016.

Files
DCOM98.EXE SHA1: aff002bd03f17340b2bef2e6b9ea8e3798e9ccc1 Size: 1.12 MB

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Windows 98

1. Please read theDCOM98 1.3 Release Notes before installing DCOM98 1.3.
    
2. For licensing and redistribution guidelines for DCOM98 1.3, please read the End-User License Agreement ("EULA").
    
3. Download and run the self-extracting executableDCOM98 for Windows 98.
    
4. If you are an administrator who needs to configure applications to use distributed COM, link to download the self-extracting executableDCOM98 for Windows 98 configuration utility file from the Microsoft Download site.