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	Chapter 25 - Getting Started with OLE
	Visual C++ 6: The Complete Reference
	Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray, III

Copyright 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies

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	Chapter 25: Getting Started with OLE

	Overview

	The concepts and definitions used with the tools in Microsoft OLE are introduced in this chapter. OLE, at its inception, simply stood for Object Linking and Embedding. However, as Microsoft expanded its power and features, its abilities exceeded this definition. Microsoft no longer refers to this product as anything but OLE. By definition, OLE is an object-based technology for sharing information and services across process and machine boundaries.

	OLE tools allow programmers to develop interconnected applications—compound documents—which are dynamically linked together. These compound documents include linked or embedded objects in addition to data.

	Developing OLE-compliant containers and servers without the use of Microsoft’s wizards and the MFC is foolish, because you’d have to write literally thousands of lines of code, much of it redundant from application to application.

	This chapter shows you how to build OLE-compliant applications with the AppWizard. This powerful tool, first discussed in Chapter 24, is great for developing applications with OLE features. The program developer can transcend the mundane tasks of repetitive programming code by using the AppWizard’s dynamic templates. The AppWizard also allows you, the programmer, to introduce features into your applications without having to worry about the details of the implementation. With the AppWizard, implementing OLE in an application has become very, very simple!

	A container application is developed in this chapter with the use of the AppWizard. The information you learn from this application can be applied to a server application that you can develop on your own.

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