ATL Internals: Working With ATL 8

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