Update2****

Check out Don's site, I told you he would agree that COM is not going away.  Look at Project E - Essential COM, 2nd Edition

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Actually I can't look at OLEView because I only have Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed on my machine.  So why do you think that OLEView is not shipped with Visual Studio anymore?  Is it because we don't need to use COM anymore, or is it because the Visual Studio package was too large already.  A lot of people will argue that COM is dead and that we don't need these silly tools anymore, but I think Don Box would agree that it is still around if not in person than in sprit.  He might even tell you COM is love, but I think he was really trying to tell you that the ideas of COM are love not the implementation.

I hope they do ship something that will do the same thing, but I have not been able to find anything yet.  If anyone knows what I can use without having to go download OLEView from a machine that already has it please let me know.

The reason I am looking into this is for two reasons.
1) I am doing a presentation on COM interop and Excel
2) I have been working with Microsoft Office, which is still written in unmanaged code.

Both of these reasons are making me think that Microsoft is not just dropping support for COM as we know it; they are helping us move away from it and not use it.

Update****

Matt pointed me to a great page that shows what tools are installed, and even though it says OLEView should be there it was not.  It seems my install did not go right, but that I was never told about the problems.  You don't really need COM tools anyways. =)  So I found that under the Visual C++.NET section there is a place for Win32 tools.  I am going to have to check out what happens if you just install C# or VB.NET, do you still get the COM tools you don't need. ;)

--Brendon Schwartz