Re: New to COM programming, where to start?

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On Apr 11, 1:11 pm, Uwe Kotyczka <uwe.kotyc...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hallo, I'm new to COM programming.

I have a MFC (MDI) application, say B.exe, which has no COM support
yet.
Now a I have to write a new app A.exe (which will be MFC as well),
which must be able to open a document of B.exe in it's own surface.
Just as a PDF document is shown within InternetExplorer and not
opened in Adobe Reader.

I think COM will be the right thing to do so. A.exe would be the
client
and B.exe the server. Next thing is that not only B.exe has to be
automated, but a whole bunch of EXEs, some of which written with MFC,
others written in Delphi.

With no idea of the details of COM I started reading about it and
find a lot of different approaches. Can someone please recommend me
where to start? I am looking for some article suiting my situation
or for some example which solves a similar task.

TIA

Do you simply want your new application to support multiple document
formats. Or do you want your new application to be able to plugin
runnable code from the other applications?
.

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