April 20, 2006

My First MFC Application using COM

I am excited to tell you that I have built a simple MFC applcation using COM objects, which used to be somehow mysterious to me. The COM objects are created by ATL. Before reading this article, I assume that you have the basic knowledge of COM and be experienced programming in C++. One thing I should pointed out is that I am a newbie of COM and there may be some errors in this article. Still, The reason I write this article is to record my growth of my technical career and share it with you.

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April 17, 2006

COM COM COM

I thought I would stick on my Linux path and finally to be a Unix/Linux expert when I took the current job. But just like Groom said, “Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you’re going to get". I realize that there are some more interesting technologies there waiting for my exploring. I must confess that The Microsoft® COM (Component Object Model) has made a great effort on platform-independent and object-oriented software development. This technology is so popular that many large companies are using it to build complicated applications and also so many software job positions require knowledge of COM explicitly.

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