Chapter 5. COM Servers
A Review of COM Servers
After you create one or more COM classes, you need to package the classes and install them on a system. The package is called a COM Server, which is a dynamically activated collection of the implementations of one or more COM classes. Modern Win32 versions of COM enable you to create a COM server as an in-process (inproc) server (a dynamic link library), an out-of-process server (an executable), or, on the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating system, a system service executable.[1]
A COM server has three jobs, in addition to hosting the implementations of its classes:
• Register and unregister all classes in the server and, potentially, the server itself.
• Provide the COM Service Control Manager (SCM) ...
Get ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
