Automation Programmer’s Reference Kolektif PDF

With the revolutionary power of ActiveXTM and OLE, you can manipulate application objects from outside the application in Microsoft® Windows® 95 and Microsoft Windows NT®. And this book, newly revised and expanded, gives you the information you need to do it. AUTOMATION PROGRAMMER’S REFERENCE describes and explains essential topics such as: Building applications and programming tools (ActiveX components that act as clients) that expose objects—which can then be acted on by other executable ActiveX components Using one application to create and manipulate ActiveX objects that are exposed in another application Developing ActiveX components that act as clients In addition, you get specific procedural and reference information that: Defines standard Automation objects and provides naming guidelines Describes the programmability interfaces and standards for exposing these interfaces for ActiveX controls Provides access to data manipulation functions Shows how to generate, read, bind, and extend type descriptions Explains how to create and extend type libraries Offers rich error-handling interfaces Features new ITypeInfo2 and ITypeLib2 interfaces for performance improvements Contains new functions for accessing and manipulating custom data in a type library This book is a welcome addition to the technical libraries of Windows 95 and Windows NT programmers, Visual Basic® and Visual Basic for Applications programmers, and anyone else who wants the official word on Automation