Online material or book for COM programming

Question

Hi, I want some good book/**online material** to learn COM programming with C++ from the basics. I do not have prior knowledge about COM but have good knowledge about c++. So some book that will teach me from hello world programming in COM will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Don Box's Essential COM starts out with an excellent job of describing COM fundamentals from the point of view of a C++ programmer with no COM experience -- but it does then move rapidly into increasingly complex topics, allowing little time for the reader to catch their breath.

Kraig Brockschmidt's Inside OLE takes things a bit more slowly, though I am not sure if it's still in print.

Box et al.'s Effective COM is a bit bitty, but presents quite a bit of info in convenient bite-sized chunks, again starting out with a good section on moving from C++ to COM.

And if you're using Visual C++, Rector and Sells' Essential ATL (I think there is now a second edition by Chris Tavares, but not sure) walks through the ATL wrapper library from "Hello, ATL" on up.