This document describes how Visual Basic can be used for implementing
the COM taxonomy pilot application. A description of the application
can be found in COT-3-15: The COM Pilot Application. 

This report is part of an evaluation of four development environments
with respect to their support for COM based development. The main
document of this evaluation is COT-3-4: Evaluation of COM Support in
Development Environments. 

The intention of the document is to give the reader a feeling and
understanding of how Visual Basic can be used for solving COM related
tasks. Because Visual Basic's approach is based on abstraction by
wrapping functionality into predefined packages, we will most probably
encounter limitations in Visual Basic with respect to its handling of
COM. Some of these limitations could be overcome by using additional
tools. We will in this investigation limit ourselves to examine how
the standard Visual Basic development environment can be
used. Breaking the barriers of standard Visual Basic by using the
Windows API, using external tools (i.e. Notepad) etc., is a very
important task. Though it is not a task undertaken here.