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Understanding The COM Single-Threaded Apartment Part 1

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Learn the fundamental principles of the COM Single-Threaded Apartment Model by code examples.
#ifndef __Registry_H__
#define __Registry_H__
//
// Registry.h
//   - Helper functions registering and unregistering a component.
//

// This function will register a component in the Registry.
// The component calls this function from its DllRegisterServer function.
HRESULT RegisterServer(HMODULE hModule, 
                       const CLSID& clsid, 
                       const char* szFriendlyName,
                       const char* szVerIndProgID,
                       const char* szProgID) ;

// This function will unregister a component.  Components
// call this function from their DllUnregisterServer function.
HRESULT UnregisterServer(const CLSID& clsid,
                         const char* szVerIndProgID,
                         const char* szProgID) ;

#endif

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Systems Engineer NEC
Singapore Singapore
Lim Bio Liong is a Specialist at a leading Software House in Singapore.

Bio has been in software development for over 10 years. He specialises in C/C++ programming and Windows software development.

Bio has also done device-driver development and enjoys low-level programming. Bio has recently picked up C# programming and has been researching in this area.

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