Re: Unified Event Model and support for multithreaded usage

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:56:24 -0800
Message-ID:
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No, it's not this, and BTW, what kind of events did you expect in
ATL anyway? ATL has nothing to do with .NET - it's all native.
The problem I'm talking about was with dispinterfaces and
mishandining the EXCEPINFO argument to IDispatch::Invoke
which ends up being leaked. E..g we are talking about __raise.

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"Boris" <boris@gtemail.net> wrote in message
news:op.t1iowchb45fww6@burk.mshome.net...
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:18:35 +0200, Alexander Nickolov
<agnickolov@mvps.org> wrote:

My guess would be that the generated code is thread safe - e.g.
it uses critical sections.

Note that attributed ATL is deprecated in the next release of
VC - VC 9.0 part of VS 2008 due later this month. It contains


Is this for sure? I ask as the only thing I read so far about ATL in
VS2008 was that "ATL Server is no longer under active development by the
Visual C++ team and will not be included in VS2008 or any future version
of Visual Studio"
(http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/07/27/support-policy-for-atl-server-library.aspx).

bugs in the generated code (specifically events cause memory
leaks IIRC) in the previous releases of VC.


I think that's only true for native events. At least I only found this bug
report at
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=100355
which mentions native events only?

Boris

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