Back in the day, I wrote an out-of-process (i.e. EXE) COM server using VC++ 7.x (Visual Studio 2003 and .Net 1.1) using the ATL library. The server used the Multi Threaded Apartment (MTA) model and is activated by DCOM calls (VB6 clients). Multiple client requests are satisfied by a single process -- which is activated by the first request (automatically by the COM infrastructure).Back in the day, I wrote an out-of-process (i.e