The Essence of COM and ActiveX: A Programmers Workbook

by David S. Platt

The successor to The Essence of OLE with ActiveX allows programmers to learn Com and ActiveX in bite-size chunks. Topics include using data objects, OLE automation, type libraries, ActiveX controls, structured storage and persistent objects, monikers, custom interfaces, distributed COM (DCOM), ActiveX controls on the Internet, threads and COM, Active template library, JAVA and COM, shell extensions and COM, self-registering programs, ANSI/Unicode, containment & aggregation, and smart pointers. The CD-ROM contains 16 MB of working sample code. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

592 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 1997