Professional COM Applications with ATL, 2nd edition
Authors: Sing Li, Panos Economopolous
Venue:  (1998)

:This book is for experienced Visual C++ programmers. No prior knowledge of COM or ATL is assumed, as the book gives a full tutorial to them both, as well as the relevant pieces of the BackOffice jigsaw - MTS, MSMQ, SQL Server and OLE DB.The additions and changes to this book make it both significant and relevant to readers of the first edition, Professional ActiveX/COM Control Programming.This book covers:Building ActiveX controls with the latest tools - ATL 3 and Visual C++ 6 Designing and building a complete DNA intranet application with ATL components Using UML and design patterns to illustrate the development of COM-based solutions Making sense of controls and the interfaces they must support for OC94 and OC96 compliance Implementing business objects and creating OLE DB consumers Using MTS in the middle tier to provide transaction protection, rapid deployment and simplified security Using MSMQ for disconnected computing and guaranteed, asynchronous messaging Building DHTML/Visual C++ hybrid controls Considering NT and DCOM security Bitten by the microcomputer bug since 1978, Sing has grown up with the microprocessor age. His first personal computer was a $99 do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC ELF computer with 256 bytes of memory, mail ordered from the back pages of Popular Electronics magazine. Currently, Sing is an active author, consultant, and entrepreneur. He has written for popular technical journals and is the creator of the "Internet Global Phone", one of the very first Internet phones available. His wide-ranging consulting expertise spans Internet and Intranet systems design, distributed architectures, digital convergence, embedded systems, real-time technologies, and cross platform software design. Recently, he has completed an assignment with Nortel Multimedia Labs working in Computer Telephony Integration, and Advanced Callcenter Management products. Sing is a founder of microWonders, an emerging company specializing in products to fulfill the ubiquitous "computing anywhere" vision. Other titles by this author: ATL Programmer's Resource Kit Professional COM Applications with ATL Professional IE4 Programming Professional Visual C++ 5: ActiveX/COM Control Programming Visual C++ 4 Master Class|AUTHORBIO: Panos Economopoulos has been the architect, designer and leader for implementations of a number of complex and successful distributed computer systems. Currently, he is Manager of Research and Development at Telesis North. Here, he designed the OnAir series of mobile client-server products that provide efficient and robust remote access to BackOffice servers over a variety of satellite and other wireless networks. He has extensive experience as a consultant to the Industry and has developed, and taught, a variety of courses both at University undergrad level and for mature developers. He's also carried out advanced research at the University of Toronto - results of which have been published in several research journals. Other titles by this author ATL Programmer's Resource Kit Professional COM Applications with ATL Professional Visual C++ 5: ActiveX/COM Control Programming| END