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4 OLE Automation

4.6 Building an Automation server application

This section explains how to build an OLE Automation server application, introducing necessary concepts along the way.

4.6.1 - Overview
4.6.2 - Defining the Dylan class representing a dispinterface
4.6.3 - Defining type information for the dispinterface
4.6.4 - Defining dispatch methods for the dispinterface
4.6.5 - Dispatch method argument and return value types
4.6.6 - Defining type information for dispatch methods
4.6.7 - The DEFINE DISPATCH-INTERFACE macro
4.6.8 - Retaining arguments sent to dispatch methods
4.6.9 - Cleaning up with TERMINATE
4.6.10 - Servers providing more than one dispinterface
4.6.11 - Local server initialization
4.6.12 - Registering an Automation server
4.6.13 - Skeleton OLE Automation server
4.6.14 - In-process server initialization

OLE, COM, ActiveX and DBMS Reference - 31 MAR 2000

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