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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.

- Wayne Berry on May 31 1997
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