ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 2nd Edition

Description

The Classic Guide to ATL - Now Updated for ATL 8 and Visual Studio 2005

Four leading Windows programming experts systematically reveal ATL's inner workings, explaining not just how ATL works, but why it works the way it does. Client-side developers will master ATL's resources for windowing, COM control, MFC integration, web service proxy generation, and more. Server-side programmers will discover ATL's full COM server and object services, and its extensive support for high-throughput, high-concurrency web applications, and services. Every Windows developer will learn powerful ways to increase flexibility, reduce overhead, and maximize transparency and control.

* Discover ATL's internals through diagrams, example code, and internal ATL implementation code

* Walk through wizards that simplify ATL usage in common applications

* Master string handling in C++, COM, and ATL

* Leverage ATL smart types, including CComPtr, CComQIPtr, CComBSTR, and CComVariant

* Understand and choose the right options for implementing IUnknown

* Create glue code that exposes COM objects from COM servers

* Use canned interface implementations to support object persistence, COM

            collections, enumerators, and connection points

* Build standalone applications and UI components with ATL window classes

            and controls

* Use ATL Server to develop web applications that run on Microsoft IIS

CONTENTS:

Foreword to the Second Edition xiii

Foreword to the First Edition xv

Preface xvii

About the Authors xxiii

Chapter 1 Hello, ATL 1

Chapter 2 Strings and Text 43

Chapter 3 ATL Smart Types 99

Chapter 4 Objects in ATL 175

Chapter 5 COM Servers 243

Chapter 6 Interface Maps 299

Chapter 7 Persistence in ATL 345

Chapter 8 Collections and Enumerators 381

Chapter 9 Connection Points 441

Chapter 10 Windowing 489

Chapter 11 ActiveX Controls 567

Chapter 12 Control Containment 631

Chapter 13 Hello, ATL Server: A Modern C++ Web Platform 699

Chapter 14 ATL Server Internals 739

Appendix A C++ Templates by Example 787

Appendix B ATL Header Files 799

Appendix C Moving to ATL 8 803

Appendix D Attributed ATL 815

Index 827