A knowledge of COM and ActiveX technologies is essential for advanced Windows programming. MFC still provides the best support for programming in COM, hiding many of its complexities. This course combines an excellent introduction to the underlying COM building blocks with the MFC abstractions for programming in COM. A variety of labs are provided to reinforce good programming techniques.

COM/COM+ Training Prerequisites

This class requires prior programming experience in C++. Basic knowledge of MFC and C++.

COM/COM+ Training Course duration

5 Days

COM/COM+ Training Course outline

• COM overview and rationale
• COM clients - concepts
• COM Servers - Implementing a inprocess server
• Interface Definition Language (IDL)
• COM Servers - Implementing a Local Server, Standard and Custom marshalling
• Overview of MFC support
• Structured storage and persistent objects
• Data objects
• Uniform data transfer, Drag and drop
• Automation and Type libraries, dispatch maps, MFC support, building automation hierachies
• ActiveX controls - properties, methods, events, property pages, property persistence
• Distributed COM (DCOM)
• Optional - COM+ overview, COM+ services & tools