[perl-win32-gui-hackers] How to create/use COM components in plain C, without MFC, ATL, WTL, or any other

[Jeremy W. <jez...@ho...>]

I came across this great article - may be of interest to some people:

Introduction
There are numerous examples that demonstrate how to use/create 
COM/OLE/ActiveX components. But these examples typically use Microsoft 
Foundation Classes (MFC), .NET, C#, WTL, or at least ATL, because those 
frameworks have pre-fabricated "wrappers" to give you some boilerplate code. 
Unfortunately, these frameworks tend to hide all of the low level details 
from a programmer, so you never really do learn how to use COM components 
per se. Rather, you learn how to use a particular framework riding on top of 
COM.

If you're trying to use plain C, without MFC, WTL, .NET, ATL, C#, or even 
any C++ code at all, then there is a dearth of examples and information on 
how to deal with COM objects. This is the first in a series of articles that 
will examine how to utilize COM in plain C, without any frameworks.

http://www.codeproject.com/com/com_in_c1.asp

Cheers,

jez.