Box D. Essential COM 1998 torrent

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Foreword by Charlie Kindel.
Foreword by Grady Booch.
Preface.
COM as a Better C++.
Software Distribution and C++.
Dynamic Linking and C++.
C++ and Portability.
Encapsulation and C++.
Separating Interface from Implementation.
Abstract Bases as Binary Interfaces.
Runtime Polymorphism.
Object Extensibility.
Resource Management.
Where Are We?
Interfaces.
Interfaces and Implementations Revisited.
IDL.
Methods and Results.
Interfaces and IDL.
IUnknown.
Resource Management and IUnknown.
Type Coercion and IUnknown.
Implementing IUnknown.
Using COM Interface Pointers.
Optimizing Querylnterface.
Data Types.
Attributes and Properties.
Exceptions.
Where Are We?
Classes.
Interface and Implementation.
Class Objects.
Activation.
Using the SCM.
Classes and Servers.
Generalizations.
Optimizations.
Interface and Implementation Again.
Monikers and Composition.
Monikers and Persistence.
Server Lifetime.
Classes and IDL.
Class Emulation.
Competent Categories.
Where Are We?
Objects.
IUnknown Revisited.
Querylnterface Is Symmetric.
Querylnterface Is Transitive.
Querylnterface Is Reflexive.
Objects Have Static Type.
Querylnterface and IUnknown.
Uniqueness and Identity.
Multiple Interfaces and Method Names.
Dynamic Composition.
Binary Composition.
Containment.
Where Are We?
Apartments.
Interface and Implementation Revisited.
Objects, Interfaces, and Apartments.
Cross-Apartment Access.
In-Process Marshaling Helpers.
Standard Marshaling Architecture.
Lifecycle Managing and Marshaling.
Custom Marshaling.
The Free Threaded Marshaler.
Where Are We?
Applications.
In-Process Activation Pitfalls.
Activation and the SCM.
Server Lifetime Revisited.
Application IDs.
COM and Security.
Programmatic Security.
Access Control.
Token Management.
Where Are We?
Miscellanea.
Pointer Basics.
Pointers and Memory.
Arrays.
Flow Control.
Dynamic versus Static Invocation.
Bidirectional Interface Contracts.
Aliasing in IDL.
Asynchronous Methods.
Where Are We?
Appendices:
The Evolution of Objects.
Selected Code fragments