Expanding on his previous articles, Steve explains how to use the built-in conversions to and from VARIANTs in his Matrix class.
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Writing MS WORD Addins
Learn how to write an add-in for Microsoft Word 2000 using this detailed tutorial.
What Is the Matrix?
Matrix is a templatized utility class available here on CodeGuru. This article digs into showing more regarding the use of this.
COM Interoperability
Explore COM Interoperability, also known as COM Interop. COM Interop is the means to which COM objects can be used in a .NET application and how .NET objects can be built to appear to be COM objects.
A Simple Example To Explain COM STA, MTA, and Auto-threaded Modules
Check out this illustration of the functions of COM Single Thread Apartment (STA), Multithread Apartment (MTA), and ATL Auto-thread Module with a testing client-server application.
Implementing a DropTarget in ATL
Making a control a drop-target in ATL is not something you do very easily. (A demo project has been provided.)
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.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

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