ActiveX Programming with Visual C++

Product Description

Readers will learn how to master Microsoft's exciting new component architecture, ActiveX, and build powerful new servers, controls, and COM objects within days. Extensive coverage is given of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the new Active Template Library (ATL), and the BaseCtl framework. The CD contains numerous sample controls and all of the source code from the book./p>

Reviews From AMAZON.COM

Too many mistakes

well, it should be an excellent book but finally turns out to be a nightmare due to too many mistakes. Few files in the book can be used directly and mistakes could be found every page. Just a waste of time and energy.

A Cookbook with some ActiveX recipes

This book tries to show how to 'do ActiveX' without explaining what ActiveX (or COM) is. It gives some 'recipes', but doesn't explain the gotchas. As far as recipes go, some areas that were important for my project were missing (variant and safearray manipulation, threading models) I think anyone whose serious about ActiveX programming (especially the distributed-computing part) should have some understanding of the inner-workings of COM. This book does not touch this issue at all. Another issue not touched is the structure of ATL and the OLE parts of MFC (which is hard to explain without explaining COM first). So I'd say this is book is good for someone who needs to get something out the door tomorrow, assuming that the book's 'recipes' cover all the project's needs (which is not very likely...)