Lecture #12 - ATL and Building ATL-based Projects

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Office Hours: Instructor & TAs

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. Uploading Project Submissions
   
3. Project #2
   
4. Two useful references for this material:
   • ATL Internals, Second Edition, Working with ATL 8, Tavares, Fertitta, Rector, Sells, Addison-Wesley, 2007
     A quite detailed look at how ATL works - highly recommended.
   • Essential IDL, Interface Design for COM, Martin Gudgin, Addison-Wesley, 2001
     Covers almost everything you might want to know about IDL - again, highly recommended.
5. Project simulating ATL Structure
   
6. MSDN ATL Class Overview
   
7. ATL Presentation
   Discusses the relationship between ATL modules and a component developed with ATL.
8. ATL_Inproc_Ex1
   Our first ATL demonstration. Here you will see CComBSTR and CComQIPtr in action.
9. Building ATL_Inproc_Ex1
   
10. Attributed ATL Programming
    Shows how to use the new attributed style of building COM objects.
11. Attributed ATL Programming Demo
    
12. CComQIPtr
    A smart pointer the makes client code simpler and easier to maintain.
13. CComBSTR
    BSTRs are rather ackward to manipulate, but wrapping a BSTR in a CComBSTR makes it almost as easy to use as a std::string object.
14. CComSafeArray
    BSTRs are rather ackward to manipulate, but wrapping a BSTR in a CComBSTR makes it almost as easy to use as a std::string object.
15. CComVariant
    BSTRs are rather ackward to manipulate, but wrapping a BSTR in a CComBSTR makes it almost as easy to use as a std::string object.
16. ATL_OutProcST
    
17. Building ATL_OutProcST
    

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