Microsoft's COM (Component Object Model) is both the key to Microsoft's Internet strategy and the technology for interaction among Microsoft's applications, such as editing a spreadsheet from within a word processor. This work shows how to use COM to create software objects and build applications quickly. It provides an overview of COM technology using real-world examples spanning the entire range of COM techniques such as: using COM API; using Microsoft Foundation Classes for C COM; using ATL (the Actve Template Library) for COM, RPC (Remote Procedure Calls); and COM+ (the C++ wrapper library for COM methods). The companion CD-ROM includes source code for all of the examples and a "SampleWizard" utility which enables the user to insert interactively the examples into applications.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Section I. COM Basics, Chapter 1. COM Objects, Chapter 2. COM Communication, Chapter 3. Other COM Issues, Chapter 4. COM+, Section II. COM Examples, Chapter 5. Creating and Accessing COM Objects, Chapter 6. Writing COM Servers with MFC, Chapter 7. Writing COM Servers with ATL, Chapter 8. Writing COM Servers with VB and VJ++, Chapter 9. COM Communications, Chapter 10. COM+ Examples, Chapter 11. Accessing Database Objects, Chapter 12. Potpourri, Appendix A. COM Tables, Appendix B. COM Troubleshooting Guide, Index
