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When I was spelunking through the ATL header for my previous articles (the class object plumbing) I discovered that there is a serious race condition in the server lifetime management. I contacted the Microsoft C++ folks, and someone from the libraries...
In my previous article in this series, I explained how class objects are associated with COM objects, and how it all fits together. Armed with that knowledge, I can now demonstrate how to provide a custom class object that will allow us to support parameterized...
In my previous article in this series, I explained how to create a simple COM server and implement a method that returns an enumerator object. It was all done very easily, but the ATL wizards hide some of the things that you really ought to know for my...
Before I publish my next article, I should explain something else about the black magic aspect of ATL / COM: Marshalling. The Stuff server we made in the previous article is an out-of-proc server. This means that the arguments being passed to / from a...
This is my first article about practical ATL examples, which I already mentioned here. In this example I will create an ATL Server which implements 1 custom interface: IStuff. Hardly an inspiring name, but I couldn’t think of anything better before...
I am currently working on some projects where I have to program a DCOM server. There are several reasons why it has to be DCOM and C++, instead of e.g. .NET remoting and C#. The biggest pain (imo) about DCOM is that the technology stems from an era when...