Re: [Setacl-devel] ATL COM

[Kenneth C. <krc...@ms...>]

If an ActiveX control for VB6/vbscript were available, it would help to 
server is other additional applications, i.e. ASP-based web applications and 
VBA.



>From: "Howard W Wortley" <hwo...@ms...>
>Reply-To: set...@li...
>To: <set...@li...>
>CC: <hel...@ne...>
>Subject: [Setacl-devel] ATL COM
>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:18:48 +0100
>
>Hi
>
>I am familiar with building COM components (clients, servers, console apps) 
>etc using Visual C++ and ATL/COM. It is essential for building ATL/COM that 
>the developer has SP5 installed. Pro edition is OK no need for Enterprise 
>stuff. I thought I had posted before Christmas that I thought ATL/COM was 
>by far the best way to go on this project as it enables all of H.K. design 
>goals to be met within a single code source. FWIW I am also familiar with 
>Active Directory but I am not sure if SetACL is meant to get into that area 
>or not. There are differences between supporting NT4 and Win2000. NT4 is 
>sorta fading I suggest Win2000 and up support only.
>
>It would be possible to build using VC++ an activex OCX for use by VB6 if 
>anybody thought that a good idea.
>
>
>Howard
>
>From: Helge Klein <helge@ne...>
>  Language for COM control
>2003-01-14 11:44
>  As already discussed in the forum SetACL is and will be
>  written in VC++. There are mainly three reasons for this:
>
>  a) SetACL is to run without any additional runtime files.
>  Just the EXE (or OCX) is to be needed to use the program.
>  Especially larger organizations will never install runtime
>  libraries or even the .NET framework on production servers
>  just to use a tool.
>
>  b) SetACL is to fully support NT4 SP4+, W2k, XP, Windows
>  Server 2003.
>
>  c) SetACL needs serveral rather complex API functions which
>  require pointers (to functions, too) and unicode.
>
>  Those three points refer to the main program. I do not
>  think, though, that it would make _any_ sense to implement
>  other parts in another language. It would be very difficult,
>  too, since the main program consists of several C++ classes
>  which are _not_ wrapped in a DLL.
>
>  Who has experience in building COM controls in VC++ using
>  ATL or MFC?
>
>  Helge


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