Use this ATL version of "Analog Meter Class."

Tutorial on designing and implementing a program interacting with MSN Messenger 6.0+.

This tutorial helps you learn the basics of automation. With this code, you can control PowerPoint from your application. You can open PowerPoint programmatically, open any presentation, go to any slide that you want, run the slideshow, and more. The same concept can be applied to any one of the Microsoft Office applications.

How to implement the IXMLHTTPRequest onreadstatechange property in C++. (Supports the asynchronous version of the send() operation of the XMLHTTPRequest object.) Developed in Visual C++ .NET, but usable elsewhere.

A class to make safearrays easy. The parray member of CComVariant is used to store binary data.

Sometimes there isn't a need to implement full scripting support. Learn how to add this support the easy way using the Microsoft Script Control. (The article, project, and source code were updated.)

The COM+ catalog holds all COM+ configuration data. The only way you can access the catalog is through the Component Services administrative tool or through the COMAdmin library. Learn to administer this service easily.

Create a COM CoCreate instance.

Clean the Registry for COM-based projects.

How to use stream opeators to insert data into a Matrix array utility.

Expanding on his previous articles, Steve explains how to use the built-in conversions to and from VARIANTs in his Matrix class.

Learn how to write an add-in for Microsoft Word 2000 using this detailed tutorial.

Matrix is a templatized utility class available here on CodeGuru. This article digs into showing more regarding the use of this.

Explore COM Interoperability, also known as COM Interop. COM Interop is the means to which COM objects can be used in a .NET application and how .NET objects can be built to appear to be COM objects.

Check out this illustration of the functions of COM Single Thread Apartment (STA), Multithread Apartment (MTA), and ATL Auto-thread Module with a testing client-server application.

Making a control a drop-target in ATL is not something you do very easily. (A demo project has been provided.)

Arrays can be tedious, especially when passing them across COM/DCOM. This utility class aids the creation of arrays, including safe arrays and variants.

Get a step-by-step account on how to build a connectable object and a client that uses it.

Getting an (ATL) ActiveX control to print from Office applications.

The easiest way to add XML persistence to an existing IDispatch-based ATL COM object.

In Kate's newest column, learn about the CImage class, which has been added to ATL and adds enhanced bitmap support. (.NET)

Lots of people believe that ATL is used only for making COM components. In this tutorial, learn to create a fully fleshed Windows-based application using ATL.

Trung provides his perspectives on the relationships among COM, C++, and C.

How to make an ATL project that provides two cryptographic functions, how to use this component in an ASP project, and how to register the component in MTS. You also can check out a GUI client console to directly test the cryptographic functions.

Adding ATL to MFC Project

Property Pages for ActiveX Controls

Learn how to programmatically adminstrate your COM+ Applications using the COM+ Admin Objects

The COM Interop story is vital to the acceptance of .NET by today's programmers. You need access to the huge body of working tested code that is in production today, deployed as COM components. Your .NET code can call old COM code.

This article explains the details needed to implement voice interfaces and converts text to voice by creating clients using MFC, and here a dialog is taken and explained how to make use of components given by Microsoft.

Create a Windows NT Mail slot repository server service that is a placeholder for all the mail slot client messages sent by mail slot repository clients. Customize the Windows application log and create message DLLs.

An ATL-derived class to handle the structured storage of SAFEARRAYs (CComVariantExAn).

This article fills in the gaps in the discussion of converting COM unaware application to COM.

This article explains how to pass a C++ object across a COM server using a trick of MFC and ATL.

Take a look at C++ templates in this first of several articles digging into the topic.

A COM unaware application can be converted to "automation" server with COM objects embedded into the application's process.

Discover how to implement an Internet Explorer Bar (a child window within the main Explorer window) and a Desk Band (a dockable window on the desktop/taskbar). Both can be used to display information or interact with the user.

A look at ATL and assembly language.

This article discusses why ATL uses template classes. This is not a discussion of ATL features, but just the principle behind the Template library.

A simple way to create a SOAP client using C++.

Configure the Wizard template header files.

Inter Thread Communication in Apartment Threading Model of ATL Component

Drop Bar is an Internet Explorer Toolbar Band implemented using ATL. It allows drag and drop of files onto its user defined buttons. Scripted actions can then be performed with the files being dropped.

What do you do with all the COM components written in C++ if you move to .NET? Create wrappers! Learn more.

Tutorial that presents a discussion of the memory layout of an ATL program and more.

Template techniques used by ATL.

Interesting stuff behind virtual functions.

How to enable a menu in an ATL/MFC ActiveX control - simple but instructive.

ActiveX Control as well as container, exposing toolbar. Includes event mapping of toolbar buttons at client side.

Using WTL treeview in ATL Browser Helper Object to view the IE Document Object Model.

Have you ever wondered how to display charts or any other visual ActiveX controls in a web environment without having the need for the client (the browser in this case) to download these conrols in order to display the data.