COM/DCOM Blue Book: Fast Paced Learning

  • Authors:
  • Nathan Wallace

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • COM/DCOM Blue Book: Fast Paced Learning
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

From the Publisher:Presents an organized, progressive learning path through the jungle of COM details, starting from the beginning and moving to a level of professional practice. Provides necessary (and rarely published) details about COM's essential data structures: BSTR, VARIANT, and SAFEARRAY. Emphasizes DCOM security mechanisms, which are rarely covered and absolutely necessary for the use of DCOM in business environments. Fully covers ActiveX scripting, a technology that "slips through the cracks" of most COM books. To demonstrate COM's language independence, the book develops projects in four different development environments from the industry's leading vendor—ATL, MFC, VB, and VJ++. Integrates learning about all four aspects of COM (Component Object Model): COM, Automation, ActiveX, and DCOM. Emphasizes component creation and use techniques independent of any single programming language. Focuses on technologies created atop COM: MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server), ASP (Active Server Pages), and OLE DB. Demonstrates COM techniques most appropriate for real-world development in the corporate world. No "ivory tower" demos! Source code for all projects presented in the book in all four development environments covered. Trial versions of Microsoft's Visual J++ and Visual Basic. Numerous third-party ActiveX components. Freeware and trial-version development environments for HTML and ASP.