Chapter 4. Objects in ATL
ATL’s fundamental support for COM can be split into two pieces: objects and servers. This chapter covers classes and concentrates on how IUnknown is implemented as related to threading and various COM identity issues, such as standalone versus aggregated objects. The next chapter focuses on how to expose classes from COM servers.
Implementing IUnknown
A COM object has one responsibility: to implement the methods of IUnknown. Those methods perform two services, lifetime management and runtime type discovery, as follows:
interface IUnknown { // runtime type discovery HRESULT QueryInterface([in] REFIID riid, [out, iid_is(riid)] void **ppv); // lifetime management ULONG AddRef(); ULONG Release ...
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