Title/Description	Author	Updated	Score
ActiveX
Handling VB ActiveX Events in Visual C++ client This article shows how to handle custom events generated in a VB ActiveX component in a Visual C++ client.	Amit Dey	9 May 2001 Beginner	4.25
STA threading model issues Describes STA threading issues	Leon Finker	17 May 2001	3.75
Architecture
The COM Macro-Architecture Topology An article about COM Architecture, and deployment of COM Clients and COM Servers	Joao C. Morais	25 Jul 2001	4.83
COM IDs & Registry keys in a nutshell An article about COM IDs and the Registry	Joao C. Morais	25 Jul 2001	4.56
COM Macro Architecture Topology - Clients An article about COM Architecture, COM Clients and the Registry	Joao C. Morais	25 Jul 2001	2.33
COM Macro Architecture Topology - Servers An article about COM Architecture, COM Servers, COM DLL Servers and the Registry	Joao C. Morais	25 Jul 2001	2.33
Automation
Using MS Office in an MFC Application Integrating MS Office in your MFC Application using ActiveX Document mode.	Igor Tkachev	5 Nov 2000	4.81
Transporting persistent data over the internet using MSMQ This article is about using Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) as a DCOM transport layer to send a Microsoft Word document across the internet or your local LAN.	Bashir Irfan	27 Mar 2001	3.82
Beginners
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5 We look at connection points and set up the server's end of one. We'll also finish implementing our SayHello() method.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	5
Introduction to COM Part II - Behind the Scenes of a COM Server A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains the internals of COM servers, and how to write your own interfaces in C++	Michael Dunn	4 Apr 2001 Beginner	4.85
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6 We build our new server and install it on the server machine.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	4.85
Introduction to COM - What It Is and How to Use It. A tutorial for programmers new to COM that explains how to reuse existing COM components, for example, components in the Windows shell.	Michael Dunn	28 Jul 2000 Beginner	4.54
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 1 This tutorial shows you how to write DCOM software, with all the latest features, in a simple, straightforward manner.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	4.51
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 7 At last! We finish our tutorial by writing a client with MFC, AppWizard, and ClassWizard, like back in the good ol' days (sighhh...)	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	4.5
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 3 In this step we add a simple COM object to our server using the New ATL Object Wizard.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	4.25
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4 Here we add a method to our DCOM-remoted object, and start on implementing its functionality.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	4.25
Connection Points And Asynchronous calls - Part II A tutorial on connections points and Aynchronous calls	Ashish Dhar	5 Sep 2000 Beginner	4.04
DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 2 We modify starter files, provided by the ATL COM AppWizard, to improve the user-friendliness of our server.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	4
DCOM D-Mystified: Questions and Answers Brian's detailed answers to your most frequently asked questions about his DCOM tutorial.	Brian Hart	12 Aug 2000 Beginner	3.92
Connection Points And Asynchronous calls - Part I A tutorial on connections points and Aynchronous calls	Ashish Dhar	15 Jan 2001 Beginner	3.88
A very simple COM server without ATL or MFC A step by step guide to writing a COM server using C++ without MFC or ATL	Shoaib Ali	4 Aug 2000 Beginner	3.4
COM+
COM+ Object Pooling An introduction to the COM+ Object Pooling service	Jeremiah Talkar	1 Jun 2000 Beginner	4.61
Programmatic administration of COM+ Applications with the COM+ Admin objects in VC++ An introduction to the COM+ administration objects used to provide a way to access and manipulate all of the COM+ configuration data.	Ranjeet Chakraborty	26 Jan 2001	4.14
General
Beginner's Tutorial: Calling Visual Basic ActiveX DLLs from Visual C++	C. Lung	19 Nov 1999 Beginner	4.6
COM delegation using the COM channel hook mechanism Allows a low-privileged COM client to delegate calls to a COM server that is running under a higher-priveleged NT user account.	Pavlo Barvinko	28 Apr 2000	4.5
Using ActiveX Control Within A Console Application	Xiangyang Liu	23 Nov 1999	4.42
ActiveX Controls for interactive Runtime Debugging of COM Objects Three ActiveX controls that allow the runtime-browsing of the object model hierarchy of a COM-Object, its implemented interfaces and the browsing and interactive changing of its properties and methods (a somewhat extended combination of VB's property	Frank Boettger	22 Mar 2001 Advanced	4.4
A smart critical section wrapper for COM objects An extremely simple class that wraps the win32 CRITICAL_SECTION. Ideal for the COM STA or MTA.	Jeremiah Talkar	30 Mar 2000	4.31
In-process Servers and DCOMCNFG Utility Discusses DLL surrogates and how legacy in-process components can participate in a distributed environment	George Poulose	9 Dec 1999	4.3
Enable an MFC ActiveX Control to Self-Register A simple method that enables your MFC ActiveX Control to be self-registering	Wenfei Wu	7 Jun 2000	4.1
Serialization of COM objects using MFC A neat way to use MFCs built in serialization to store COM objects	Pierre Chalamet	18 Jan 2000	4.1
Beginner's Tutorial: Calling Visual Basic ActiveX DLLs from Visual C++	C. Lung	19 Nov 1999 Beginner	4
Using a BSTR to Transport C++ Objects Across the DCOM Interface	Richard Warg	23 Nov 1999	3.79
Writing extensible applications Using simple in-process COM objects you can make an application easy to extend without the need for recompilation of the main app.	Len Holgate	26 Feb 2000	3.63
A Multiple Inheritance based COM Framework A simple COM server that is based on Multiple inheritance	Adeel Abbas	1 Aug 2001	3.33
Component Category Manager wrapper classes COM objects can be categorised using the Component Category Manager. The code here makes it easier to use these categories in your code.	Len Holgate	25 Feb 2000	3.29
Tools
ObjectLookup Utility A small utility for looking up an object based on a CLSID or progid	Christian Skovdal Andersen	1 Feb 2001	4.17
Unedited Reader Contributions
CEnBSTR - A simple _bstr_t extension A simple _bstr_t extension to wrap basic string functionality (find, mid, replace aso)	Morten Abrahamsen	28 Feb 2001 Beginner	4.5
Docking ActiveX Controls: Principles and Implementation The article decribes how to implement docking ActiveX control using MFC and ATL	Dmitri Sviridov	10 Jun 2001 Advanced	4.43
CBSTRStream - A simple BSTR stream implementation CBSTRStream is a simple BSTR stream implemenation with some useful data type conversion functions.	Morten Abrahamsen	13 Apr 2001 Beginner	4.4
Automating the MSN Messenger Explains a little bit about event sinking and events of MSN Messenger	Faizan Naqvi	24 May 2001	3.62
Method Enumeration in ATL COM Components Explains the Enumerating Methos in ATL COM	Prabhakar Reddy . S	9 May 2001	3.52
Hex Converter Converts a lump of binary/text data to hex format.	Mukesh Gupta	14 Nov 2000	2.7
User Management using ADSI The Article Demonstrates User Management using Active Directory Services	Vineet Nandurkar	24 Mar 2001	1.89
A Kind of Transport in COM with MFC COM: how to transport objects of your own classes and their collections	Eugen Podsypalnikov	18 Jul 2001	1.83
Resolving Variants Dereferincing and resolving Variants and IDispatch	Fabian von Romberg	17 Jul 2001	1.8
Tutorial 3 This tutorial has been made to give an introduction to new c++ programmers. Unfortunately their are many great minds out there but they don't have access to free and quality c++ tutorials. So this is the third lesson	Amin Patel	15 Nov 2000 Beginner	1.64

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