ATL Internals

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