Developers Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0 - page 1
- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Developer s Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0
- Introduction
- Who Can Use this Book?
- What Does This Book Cover?
- Using the CD-ROM Lab Solutions
- Into the Great IUnknown
- Part I: Objects and Interfaces
- Chapter 1: A Review of Classic Object-Oriented Programming
- Life without Objects: Remembering Structured Programming in C
- Principles of Object-Oriented Languages
- The Principle of Encapsulation
- The Principle of Inheritance
- The Principle of Polymorphism
- Reviewing Template-Based Programming
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 2: Interface-Based Programming
- A Single Public Sector
- Defining an Interface Using C
- How to Keep Clients Happy: The Published Interface
- Developing a Custom Interface-Based API: The Rect API
- Chapter Summary
- Part II: Core COM
- Chapter 3: The Component Object Model
- A Working Definition of the Component Object Model
- The Benefits of COM
- The COM, OLE, and ActiveX Relationship
- Standard and Custom Interfaces
- The De Facto COM Interface: IUnknown
- The De Facto COM Return Type: HRESULT
- Defining COM Interfaces Using Standard COM Macros
- Strings in COM
- Activating COM Objects
- The Service Control Manager (SCM) and the System Registry
- Developing a COM Client
- Debugging In-Process COM Servers
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4: Type Information and Language Independence
- Understanding Life without IDL
- Configuring a Win32 Project to Compile IDL
- Defining Custom Interfaces in IDL
- The Complete Shapes.idl Listing
- The OLECOM Object Viewer
- Visual Basic s COM Language Mapping
- A Word on the JavaCOM Language Mapping
- Using the Visual C COM Compiler Directives
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 5: Type Information and Location Transparency
- Reviewing Location Transparency
- Hosting COM DLLs in a Surrogate Process
- COM s Marshaling Options
- Simplifying Interface and Type Library Registration
- Building a Local COM Server
- If(( DCOMCOM) (COMDCOM)) return S_OK
- Chapter Summary
- Part III: Core ATL
- Chapter 6: An Introduction to the Active Template Library
- The Need for ATL
- What Exactly is ATL?
- Creating Component Housing with the ATL COM AppWizard
- Examining the Initial ATL DLL Project Files
- Registering Self-Registering Servers
- The ATL Object Wizard
- New Project Files
- Populating Your Interfaces with Methods
- Populating Your Interfaces with Properties
- ATL and COM Text
- Debugging ATL Projects
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 7: ATL COM Objects and COM Exceptions
- Just In Case You Didn t Know...
- An Overview of Win32 Threads
- A Complete Threading Example
- Threads and the COM Developer
- ATL Coclasses are Abstract Base Classes
- Understanding the ATL COM Map
- COM Error Handling
- Chapter Summary
