CSE775 - Distributed Objects

Lecture #17 - COM's Data and Eventing Models

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Content:

1. Syllabus
   Describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.
2. Project #2, Final Projects
3. Resource Papers by McKinney: COM Strings, Variants, Safe arrays
   
4. Registry Structure:
   
   Background on the Windows Registry
   
5. Automation and IDispatch
   
   Automation Presentation
   This presentation discusses the standard COM IDispatch interface.
   Raw C++ Automation Project using IDispatch
   Here, an automation server is build with ATL and its client is built in C++ without using MFC or ATL. This too is somewhat complicated.

   Automation Servers - Steve Zimmerman
   

6. Debugging Out-of-Proc Components
   
   Attaching Debugger to another process
   
7. Distributed COM:
   
   Distributed COM Presentation
   

   DCOM Demo
   

8. COM's Data and Eventing Models
   
   Compound Files, Structured Storage, and Monikers
   
   Structured Storage Demo
   

   Two way communiation between two Out-of-Proc components
   This project uses custom interfaces on both client and server to establish duplex communication. It is a good model to use for Project #2.

   Uniform Data Transfer and Connectable Objects
   Introduction to UDT - Data Model and CPs - Eventing Model.

9. ActiveX Controls;
   
   ActiveX Controls Presentation