Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.3 EAN: 9780321159625 ISBN: 0321159624 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 888 Publication Date: July 15, 2006 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Sales Rank: 417346 Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Product DescriptionThe Active Template Library (ATL) is a set of small, efficient, and flexible classes created by Microsoft that facilitate the creation of interoperable components for developing Windows applications. The latest version of ATL is version 8, released with Visual Studio 2005. While .NET has been getting all the attention recently, there is still a huge base of installed COM/ATL code. Many programmers are dealing with difficult issues adding new .NET code to that installed base. At the same time there are many instances where ATL is still the superior choice for new applications - applications that have to run fast and efficiently on Windows, where the CPU doesn't have the memory or bandwidth to run .NET. This book will be a godsend to developers in both of those situations. As one tech reviewer put it, 'Any programmer needing to transition ATL code to .NET will need this book.' The first edition was widely praised, and sold close to 20,000 units. While ATL is no longer the cutting edge of Microsoft developer tools, there should still be a strong market for authoritative, complete, deep coverage of the newest version of this standard tool.
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Rating: - ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 (2nd Edition)
Most reviews on this book were very good. It was the reason I bought this book. This book covers topic on the ATL 8 as its title says.
However, I don't like this book although I will read this book to the end.
The reason is this. Each chapter discuss about its own topics like strings, and so on. However, it just describes each methods of a given class. It is like that of the MSDN. Why doesn't it show some sample code lines which shows how to use some of them and what the result ... Read More
Rating: - deals with many legacy issues
Tavares and his co-authors present a specialised guide to the latest version of Active Template Library. It's for the C++ programmer on a Microsoft machine, who is also familiar with the Component Object Model. The authors specifically state that you really do need expertise in the latter.
The book deals with various legacy issues, mostly dating back to MFC, which is now largely deprecated. But there are also other aspects that are grubby and mostly unavoidable. For example, when dealing ... Read More
- ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 (2nd Edition)
- deals with many legacy issues
