Lecture #8 - COM Types, Introduction to Apartments

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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. Project #1 - Discuss design issues with respect to shared data, program structure.
3. Review of In-Process Components:
   • In-Proc Components
   • Class Diagram Structure Chart Activation Diagram Virtual Function Pointer Table
     
   • In-Proc Component code
     We will go over this code, line-by-line.
4. IDL Presentation
   Discusses the types most frequently used with COM.
5. Interfaces
   Shows how to pass most common types of data through COM interfaces, e.g., basic types, strings, pointers, and arrays.
6. COM API
   
7. COM Types
   
8. COM Apartments and Threading Models
   
9. COM Reuse Mechanisms
   

10. COM String References

    http://devguy.com/fp/Tips/COM/bstr.htm
    http://www.codeproject.com/string/bstrsproject1.asp
    http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/easybstr.asp
    http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/Cpp/string/conversions/article.php/c5639/
    http://www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett/handouts/CSE775/Presentations/BruceMcKinneyPapers/COMstrings.htm
    

11. IDL Links
12. Lecture #5 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.