Activex Controls Inside Out

By Adam Denning

The book deals with troublesome, frequently encountered, high-profile tasks chosen with input from Microsoft ""RM"" support engineers and the user ed/development team at Microsoft. The recommended... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572313501
• ISBN13: 9781572313507
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 635 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Complete reference for in-process ActiveX controls w/ MFC

If you are looking to develop in-process ActiveX controls, this book will make a very good reference. Although the examples could be more mainstream, the technology detailed makes it a read worth your while. After all, it is as close to the source as you can get & you get this without worrying about marshalling, local or remote. The focus is on free marshaling, a.k.a. non-existant, as it should be.

Excellent book for those who have some experience with MFC

The book has one big strong point for anyone wanting to convert VBXs to OCXs. It has an entire chapter on this topic and was useful for me in converting my old controls to the new stuff. The book does a good job explaining controls using MFC and is easy to read if you have experience writing controls already.

Good for non beginners.

I'm wasn't a beginner when I started this book. I had already studied Inside COM by Dale Rogerson and Inside Distributed COM, so I was able to appreciate the depth that this book goes into. I suggest that anyone else planning to buy this book start with those other books to gain a firm background in COM.