Professional Visual C++ 5.0 ActiveX/COM Control Programming
By Sing Li & Panos Econompopoulos
B:
This is an excellent book. It starts out strong with an introduction to ActiveX and COM. The second chapter has an unusually COM introduction that makes fun of Microsoft naming conventions, but the author’s perspective sheds new light on COM and Active X. Right after the introduction there is a great chapter on creating and ActiveX Control from scratch, which is intended to be an exercise in understanding COM. The forth chapter talks about creating an Active X control with Active Template Library, a real bonus since at the time of publication there are no other books on the market about ATL.
The rest of the book, from chapter six on, discuses Active Server Components. At chapter six the book really starts to pick up speed and makes this book a must read. With the current wave of development using Active Server Pages, developers must understand how to create Active Server Components to run with their Active Server pages. Chapter six discusses how to create an ActiveX Component with Visual C++ 5.0 and MFC. Chapter seven discusses ActiveX Components with Visual C++ 5.0 ant ATL. Chapter 8 talks about Distributed COM in detail, the most detailed chapter that I have read to date about DCOM. Finally for the ending a discussion on distributing ActiveX Controls on the Internet, and the problems associated with componentization.
From start to finish this is a great book on Visual C++ 5.0, ATL, and Active X Components. There is a lot of source code to work with, plus the author’s narrative is light and entertaining. This is a must read, since at time of publication it is the most cutting edge book on the technology discussed.
This 15 Seconds' issue contains source code and step by step instructions for creating a chat session using Active Server pages, HTML and a standard web browser. Also demonstrated is writing and reading of a file with an Active Server page. [Read This Article][Top]
This issue describes how to make a list server using Active Server, SQL Server, and Stephen Genusa's ASPMail Component. Included are source and instructions for adding the user to the list from a Active Server page, removing the user from the list via a Active Server page, and sending mail to the whole list. [Read This Article][Top]
A rewrite of part one of a four-part series on Active Server objects. A simple example of creating a Active Server Component in Visual Studio 5.0 using the Active Template Library 2.0. The example component retrieves the user's cookie, if not available issues a new 128-bit cookie. Included in the issue is the source code and step by step instructions. This issue has been rewritten to illustrate the use of Visual Studio 5.0 and ATL 2.0 in writing Active Server Components. [Read This Article][Top]
In this issue 15 Seconds implements a catalog site that is build with Active Server pages and SQL Server. Along with the implementation there is source code and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of creating a catalog site that gets its content from a database. Included are pages for displaying products, creating a menu page, category page, and running a search across a database. [Read This Article][Top]
A complete discussion of the Last Modified header and the Expires header including the effect they have on Active Server page and various browsers. [Read This Article][Top]
