This series can help when you need to drop below the convenient abstractions in MFC or ATL to perform COM-compliant modifications. Of course, it can also help if you are working directly at this foundation level of COM programming to develop the highest performance professional applications. The samples branch consists of directories organized in a graduated sequence of tutorial lessons. The numbered order of lessons is the sequence we recommend that you follow in the tutorial. Each lesson illustrates a major feature of COM technology.
Most lessons build on the ones that came earlier in the sequence.
There is one of these narrative HTML files for each tutorial code sample. All of these HTML files are located in the main directory of the tutorial samples branch. The complete tutorial is thus made up of many HTML files located in the parent directory of all the sample directories. This single parent directory is the main tutorial directory. Additional details on the internal mechanisms of each sample can be found in code comments in each source file located in the sample's directory.