Lecture #10 - Out-of-Proc Components and Activation

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Content:

1. Syllabus
   Describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.
2. Projects for your pleasure and pain (no gain without pain):
   Project #1 - Win32 Windows Communication
   Project #2 - Communication Components
   
3. Out-of-Process Components
   Discusses the structure and activation of Out-of-Process components.
4. OutProcST Project - SingleThreaded Server
   Demonstrates how Out-of-Process Single-Threaded Server is structured. Uses Windows message loop.
5. OutProcMT Project - MultiThreaded Server
   Demonstrates how Out-of-Process Multi-Threaded Server is structured. Uses Win32 events.
6. Apartments and Threading
   Introduces the notion of apartments and their use to manage COM components that many not share the same thread model with their clients.
7. Threading Rules
   
8. Component Calls Component
   This document discusses briefly building a workspace with a client that calls a component that, in turn, calls another component.
9. ComponentCallsComponent Project
   This project provides all the code used to generate screen shots for the presentation in the previous item. The code provides brief, but useful, examples of the CComQIPtr and CComBSTR classes. I believe this is the best way to build a client for components built with ATL.
10. Lecture #6 folder
    Contains a page of links to presentations and code discussed in this class. The Lecture folders will occasionally hold physical files of interest as well. Usually, however, all the materials of interest to the class are in the presentations and code folders. The contents of these folders will grow as you progress through the course.