I need a good ATL book; Common Controls and Active X
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I am looking for a book on ATL. It must: 1.) Teach how to use ATL. Not just a browse through of ATL concepts/technologies, but in depth explanation, expounding, and analysis on usage of ATL. 2.) Explain the workings of ATL. In short I am looking for an ATL version of Bjarne's "The C++ Programming Language" Can any of you guys suggest what should I read? I am a Win32/MFC programmer. I think - am I right? - that common controls were implementated as ActiveX controls. If it is, can any of you guys provide/suggest an article/book that explains how the Redmondtians did this. Basically how an application through the Win32 api instantiate and interact with the common controls (Not an explanation of windows messaging or message routing, but on how message routing was implemented in Win32 api).
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I am looking for a book on ATL. It must: 1.) Teach how to use ATL. Not just a browse through of ATL concepts/technologies, but in depth explanation, expounding, and analysis on usage of ATL. 2.) Explain the workings of ATL. In short I am looking for an ATL version of Bjarne's "The C++ Programming Language" Can any of you guys suggest what should I read? I am a Win32/MFC programmer. I think - am I right? - that common controls were implementated as ActiveX controls. If it is, can any of you guys provide/suggest an article/book that explains how the Redmondtians did this. Basically how an application through the Win32 api instantiate and interact with the common controls (Not an explanation of windows messaging or message routing, but on how message routing was implemented in Win32 api).
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These are two excellent ATL books. Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0 by Andrew Troelsen ATL Internals by Brent Rector, Chris Sells, and Jim Springfield Kuphryn