ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8

This book is for the C++/COM programmer moving to ATL 8, as provided with Visual Studio 2005. ATL was built with a set of assumptions, so to be an effective ATL programmer, you need to understand not only how ATL is built, but also why. Of course, to understand the why of ATL, you must understand the environment in which ATL was developed: COM. Instead of attempting to compress all required COM knowledge into one or two chapters, this book assumes that you already know COM and spends all its time showing you the design, use, and internals of ATL. Don Boxs Essential COM (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1997) is a good source of COM knowledge, if youd like to brush up before diving into ATL.