Containing explanations and worked examples, this is a concise guide to building distributed applications using Microsoft"s Component Object Model. It discusses how to build COM objects and Distributed COM (DCOM) objects that reside on remote machine and assemble them into industrial strength applications. The attached CD-ROM includes all code examples and applications presented in the book, as well as the complete Microsoft COM specification, the Microsoft interface definition reference and an Active Template Library Wiazrd to help Visual C++ programmers to create COM components more quickly.