Course Scope:

Design and implement software components that use the Win32 API, Component Object Model (COM), and the .Net object model. Students will develop projects requiring them to build and use components and controls. At least one of these will be a distributed application. We will also do a small amount of windows programming.

Component technologies are a very important part of the software development process. COM is a major part of the Windows family of operating systems, and the .Net Common Run-Time is implemented as a COM component. Many of our former students are currently working on COM-based implementations in the industry. However, I expect the .Net component technology to eventually supercede COM. Therefore this course will emphasize both and discuss interoperability between these two implementation paradigms.

Required Texts and Notes - all texts available at desk in SciTech Library:

1. Windows System Programming, Third Edition, Johnson Hart, Addison Wesley, 2005
2. ATL Internals, Second Edition, Working with ATL 8, Tavares, Fertitta, Rector, and Sells, Addison Wesley, 2007.
3. The COM and COM+ Programming Primer (CACP), Alan Gordon, Prentice Hall, 2000 ISBN 0-13-085032-2
4. Class Notes, available on www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett/handouts/CSE775
5. Other Recommended References:
   • Windows Internals (WI), Fourth Edition, Russinovich and Solomon, Microsoft Press, 2005
   • Programming Windows (PW), Fifth Edition, Charles Petzold, Microsoft Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57231-995-X
   • Programming Microsoft .Net (PMDN), Jeff Prosise, Microsoft Press, 2002 ISBN 0-7356-1376-1
   • Understanding ActiveX and OLE, David Chappell, Microsoft Press, 1996
   • Essential COM, Don Box, Addison Wesley, 1998

Other Useful References

1. Strings the OLE Way, The Safe OLE Way of Handling Arrays, The Ultimate Data Type, all by Bruce McKinney
   

Prerequisites

CSE687 - Object Oriented design is a co-requisite. That is, you may take CSE687 while taking this course.