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Developers Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0

ISBN: 1556227043
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 171

Authors: Andrew W. Troelsen

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• 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
• Chapter 8: COM Object Identity and ATL
• The Basic ATL COM Map
• Variations on the ATL COM Map Macros
• Resolving Interface Method Name Clashes
• Resolving Name Clashes in ATL
• Ambiguities within Interface Hierarchies
• Understanding Tear-Off Interfaces
• COM Reuse Mechanisms: Containment and Aggregation
• Understanding COM Aggregation
• The Final COM Map Macros
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 9: Component Housing and ATL
• A Recap of COM Server Responsibilities
• CComModule: Your Server s Housekeeper
• Understanding the Object Map
• Chapter Summary
• Part IV: COM Patterns
• Chapter 10: Scriptable Objects and ATL
• Smart Clients and the vTable Interface
• The IDispatch Interface
• Client-Side Code and the VARIANT Data Type
• The DISPPARAMS Structure
• The Automation Safe Array Data Type
• Understanding the Dual Interface
• Building Your Dispinterface Using Type Information
• Building your Dispinterface Using ATL
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 11: COM Enumerators and COM Collections
• Developing Complex Interface Parameters in IDL
• Understanding COM Enumeration
• An Overview of COM Collections
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 12: Callback Interfaces and Connectable Objects
• The World of One-Way Communications
• COM s Connectable Object Architecture
• Easing a Client s Burden with IProvideClassInfo(2)
• Chapter Summary
• Part V: Windowing
• Chapter 13: Using ATL as a Windowing Framework
• And Now for Something Completely Different: ATL as a Windowing Toolkit
• The Atoms of a Windows Window
• The ATL Windowing Framework
• Understanding CWindowImpl
• The ATL Message Map
• ATL s Support for Dialog Box Development
• Building an Interactive Dialog with ATL
• Chapter Summary
• Chapter 14: Developing ActiveX Controls with ATL
• Understanding the ActiveX Control
• Understanding Property Pages
• Invisible at Runtime Controls
• The Makeup of a Typical ActiveX Control
• ATL Object Wizard Options
• Examining the Initial Full Control: The IDL Code
• Extending Our Full Control with COM Categories
• Debugging ActiveX Controls
• Framework Support: CComControl and IPropertyNotifySinkCP
• Framework Support: CComControlBase
• Framework Support: Ambient Properties
• Framework Support: Stock Properties and CStockPropImpl
• Framework Support: IViewObjectExImpl
• Framework Support: COM Persistence
• ActiveX Controls, Property Pages, and the Container
• Using an ActiveX Control from a Web Page
• A Licensed Class Factory and IClassFactory2
• Chapter Summary
• Index
• Index_A
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
• Index_J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• List of Figures