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In the first of a two-part series, Jeff Prosise covers the all-important issues of COM security in terms of activation security and access security.

ATL Coding Helpers

Some COM clients, including scripting clients, can only access the default (IDispatch) interface on an object. If your object wants to expose multiple interfaces to such clients, one solution is DISPID Encoding. In this week's ATL article, Andrew illustrates one technique for accomplishing this.

What exactly is a tear-off? Why you might want to use one, and how the ATL supports both regular and cached tear-off interfaces. Are they worth spending time on? In this article, Andrew teaches you everything you wanted to know about tear-off interfaces, but were afraid to ask.

Andrew illustrates the underlying mechanics of aggregation vs. containment in ATL, why you'd want to choose one technique over the other, and how each is supported by the ATL through macros and classes.

Some COM clients - including scripting clients - can only access the default (dispatch) interface on an object. If your object wants to expose multiple interfaces to such clients, one solution is DISPID Encoding. This article shows how to do it with the ATL.