Creating an ATL Server Project
For this hour's lesson, you're going to go a little beyond the customary Hello World example. By the end of the lesson, you will have created the famous number-guessing game, where the object is to guess the magic number randomly generated by the server in the smallest amount of guesses possible.
To begin with, open the Project Wizard dialog by selecting New, Project from the File menu. Select Visual C++ Projects from the Project Types list and click the ATL Server Project template. Give your project the name NumberGuess and click OK.
The first thing you'll see is the ATL Server Project Wizard dialog, as shown in Figure 14.1.
Figure 14.1. The ATL Server Project Wizard.
Although you're going to use all the default ...
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