Re: COM Apartments - Message Loops

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:26:01 -0700
Message-ID:
<OL8KfYg#GHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Of course it doesn't! This is an undocumented implementation
detail of COM after all...

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"Ron Ayoub" <ronaldayoub@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1161893052.252130.229140@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

"Inside COM" is what I read. I used to think it is a great book. But it
did fail to explain the facts about the hidden window and windowproc
being created. I guess someone who doesn't think about the internals
would except things as they are and move on but without explaining that
it is just going to leave you grasping at straws. Notice our lengthy
discussion. Only toward the very end was it thought to explain the
hidden window and windowproc. "Inside COM" never explains it from what
I remember.

Igor Tandetnik wrote:

Volker Hetzer <firstname.lastname@ieee.org> wrote:

Igor Tandetnik schrieb:

Ron Ayoub <ronaldayoub@yahoo.com> wrote:

In that case, the literature that
claims one thread per STA is also wrong or misleading in some
manner.


The literature is correct in this regard.

Just to butt in, what literature?


Whichever literature claims that only one thread can belong to any given
STA.

I'm in the beginning of learning COM programming, got Essential COM
and ATL internals but I need something much simpler to start with.


The following books are often recommended:

"Inside COM"
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Microsoft-Programming-Dale-Rogerson/dp/1572313498

"Beginning ATL COM Programmming"
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Atl-Com-Programming/dp/1861000111

"Professional ATL COM Programming "
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Atl-Programming-Richard-Grimes/dp/B0000B0T0K

I haven't personally read any of these.
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