Beginning ATL COM Programming (Beginning S.) - Softcover

Grimes, Richard; Reilly, George; Stockton, Alex; Templeman, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861000111 ISBN 13: 9781861000118

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

As well as telling you how ATL works, the book is full of examples illustrating the concepts. We cover connection points, collections, enumerations; explain how ATL handles IDispatch, error objects; persistence interfaces and how to extend them, explain how ATL handles ambient and stock properties; property maps, message maps, property pages, initializing properties via scripting and >PARAM< tags;

We also explain various ways of marshaling, threading, and how ATL handles the various models. We cover DCOM related topics like using surrogates to remote DLL servers and writing remote EXE servers (we develop a class and a sample client that calls the class inproc, local, via a surrogate, and remote). The final chapter develops a full control that is scriptable and has complex properties that can be initialized in IE and in VB, and set via a property page

About this title

From the Publisher

The book is primarily for Visual C++ developers (although ATL is freely available from Microsoft's web site at present). The reader will probably be fairly experienced in using MFC, and may well have used the Wizards to produce simple MFC controls in the past. The book is ideal for people who need to get to grips with the principles of COM and the ways in which ATL handles much of the complexity for the programmer.

The book is a logical next step for people who have read Beginning Visual C++ 5. The back of Beginning Visual C++5, which is in CompUSA, points consumers to this book.

About the Author

Richard Grimes
ATL took hold of Richard while he was part of a team developing a COM-based workflow system. Its elegance and symplicity had a lasting effect on him. Now, although Richard does not live an obsessively pure COM lifestyle, he finds that ATL gives him more time to enjoy his garden. Richard writes and advises on COM and ATL, and can be contacted via email at atl.dev@grimes.demon.co.uk.

George Reilly
George V. Reilly is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Brown University. He has been programming since 1982. He lives in Seattle where he works for Microsoft as a developer on the Internet Information Server team. He can be reached at gvr@halcyon.com.

Alex Stockton
Alex runs the World of ATL website when he's not writing and editing for Wrox Press. He can be contacted at alexs@wrox.com.

Julian Templeman
Orginally trained as a geologist, Julian got side-tracked into programming in the late 70's, and has never found his way back. After working in computer graphics and the oil industry, he now works for a London-based training and consultancy company, where he spends a large part of his time lecturing on C++ and Windows programming. He can be contacted at julian@groucho.demon.co.uk

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861000111
• ISBN 13: 9781861000118
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512