I'm a dotnet newbie and have been developing some web applications in
asp.net.  I have a requirement to load files from a remote file cache
server (many of them actually) to a web image viewer.  The files can
be sensitive and because of that I can not use a virtual directory to
access them.  A coworker has suggested that I create a com + object
that would read the file and stream it back to the asp application but
I really don't know how to get started.  It seems like it should be
easy but how do you create a component that returns a stream?  Should
it be a memory stream and then don't I have problems with the com
object needing to be multi-threaded to support my web multi-user
environment?  Can anyone suggest an example of how this might be done.

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