General COM/DCOM

Nicholas Zakas explores the powerful DOM Range tool and how a range can be used to select a section of a web document regardless of node boundaries.

Learn about OLE container implementation to host a Transparent Flash Player Control using plain C++. No ATL, MFC, or other libraries are used.

Learn about a way to enable a hot key in an ActiveX control without a message hook.

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.

Two classes that provide richer interfaces and easier semantics to pass classes via COM/DCOM.

Getting around version conflicts and more.

Very useful COM Object Lookup utility that provides the classname and executable based on a CLASID or ProgID

Function that enables you to compare a classid to a progid for things such as determining if a given component has been installed.

Several functions to read and write variants to streams and blobs

Illustrates most efficient manner of passing binary data via COM

Allows a COM client to delegate calls to a COM server that is running under a higher-priveleged NT user account.

Connection Points and Asynchronous Calls - Part II

Tutorial on programming Connection Points

Illustrates how to register components on a remote machine !

In-process Servers and DCOMCNFG Utility

Writing and Reading COM objects using CArchive

Implementing Asynchronous Data Transfer for COM Clients

Getting a Feel of COM Threading Models

Programmatically registering and unregistering COM servers

Passing DYNAMIC Data QUICKLY using SafeArrays - 2

COM Collection Template Class

Using a BSTR to Transport C++ Objects Across the DCOM Interface

DLLUnregister Server in MFC based COM applications

Using a Multidimensional SAFEARRAY to pass data across from COM objects