Сущность технологии СОМ. Библиотека программиста

Бокс Дональд

Easily used without Wizard support

Easily kept in one's head

Modular (use only what you need and nothing else)

Extensible

Small Code

Fast Code

No DLL ever

Compiler-friendly

Platform-neutral where possible (including 16-bit Windows)

Current Feature Set

Anal-rententive Smart Pointer

Efficient and intuitive Unicode handling

Table-driven QueryInterface

Table-driven Registration

Table-driven Class management

Generic Class Factory implementation.

Preprocessor macros for de facto IUnknown implementation techniques.

Preprocessor macros for de facto module management routines.

Preprocessor macros for de facto DllXXX routines.

Preprocessor macros for de facto out-of-proc CRCO/Wait/CRCO sequence.

Planned Work

Performance/size tuning

Compiler/Platform testing

Verify ATL/MFC interoperation

Macro-ization of smart pointer for 16-bit windows

Add optional exception semantics to smart pointer

Map COM hresults/exception to C++ exceptions

Add support for IDispatch and friends

Add support for IConnectionPoint and friends

Add IEnum -> stl thunks