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| Learn the essentials of Microsoft’s Component Object Model. Understand its history and design, its relationship to classic C++, and how to write COM code effectively with modern C++. |
This is the first in a series of courses exploring the essentials of COM and the Windows Runtime. In this first course, you are going to learn everything you need to know to use COM confidently and effectively. This course explores the history of COM. You will learn about how C++ shaped the design of COM. You will learn the essentials of compilation and linking, fundamental to the idea of dynamically linking applications and components together. By the end of this course you will have a thorough understanding of COM’s IUnknown interface, how and why it works the way it does, how to implement it, how to use it, and how to wrap it up in a safe and efficient manner with modern C++ libraries
Content:
Microsoft’s Component Object Model
Introduction
What is COM?
Core Concepts
Pillars of COM
History
The Players
Summary
COM and C++
Introduction
COM as a better C++98
Dynamic Linking
Demo: Dynamic Linking
Exporting Objects
Demo: Exporting Objects
Managing Lifetime
Demo: Managing Lifetime
Extending Objects
Demo: Extending Objects
Say Hello to IUnknown
IUnknown and modern C++
Introduction
S_OK, it’s just an HRESULT
Demo: S_OK, it’s just an HRESULT
Taming the GUID
Demo: Taming the GUID
Demo: Implementing IUnknown
Demo: IUnknown and C#
The Rise of the Smart Pointer
Demo: The Rise of the Smart Pointer
C++11 as a better COM
Demo: C++11 as a better COM
Libraries
Introduction
Windows Runtime C++ Template Library (WRL)
WRL’s ComPtr
Demo: WRL’s ComPtr
WRL’s RuntimeClass
Demo: WRL’s RuntimeClass
Demo: ATL
Summary
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