The document discusses the SharePoint 2010 client side object model (COM). It introduces COM as providing a complete API for SharePoint development across different client types like Windows applications, ASP.NET websites, and JavaScript. It covers the COM architecture, comparable client and server-side objects, code samples for retrieving and manipulating list and list items, and techniques for efficiency. It concludes with a demo of building a .NET console application to retrieve list titles and add a new list item to a remote SharePoint site using the COM.