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Summary: Outstanding introduction to ATL and COM
Review: This book is written in a style that is enjoyable and very easy to follow. It contains alot of practicle information for developers building ActiveX controls. The Scribble sample in the Writing Applications with ATL chapter is also very good.
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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: This is a great book if you are already intimately familiar with COM. Their coverage of the Component Object Model is not too good. Also, coverage of building an ActiveX control container with ATL is very limited. Everyone covers building controls. Few books make connection points and events in ActiveX understandable.
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Summary: Poor and Incomplete
Review: This is not a very good book on ATL. Examples are esoteric and confusing.
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Summary: Absolutley Worthless
Review: This is one of the most worthless MS Press books I've ever bought. This piece of garbage does not even include the simplest example of creating a simple Hello World application using the ATL Window Classes. The samples in this book all assume that you'll be implementing dialog based applications. So using this book for what I wanted, window based containers for ActiveX controls, is totally not possible.I wish I could give this book fewer stars.
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Summary: Confused look at ATL
Review: While I respect the authors as programmers since this book does contain some valuable information, they have no business writing books. This book spends all of its effort discussing how COM works and then how ATL was implemented and provides little insight on how to actually use ATL. After reading this book I was very discouraged from using ATL. Few things are adequately explained. I wonder who the target audience for this book is? It is certainly not ActiveX developers. The second half of the book is superior to the first half. Inside COM, by Rogerson, puts Inside ATL to shame.
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