ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8, Second Edition

Chapter 8. Collections and Enumerators

Many COM libraries are exposed as sets of objects known as object models. A COM object model is a parent object that holds a set of child objects. COM collections and enumerators are the glue that holds the parent and the children together. This chapter examines COM collections and enumerators and how they work together to build object models.

COM Collection and Enumeration Interfaces

Standard C++ Containers and Iterators

C++ programmers long ago learned to separate their collections into three pieces: the data itself, the container of the data, and an iterator for accessing the data. This separation is useful for building pieces separately from each other. The container’s job is to enable the user to affect ...