OLE Topics

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This family of articles explains the fundamentals of OLE programming using MFC.

Note   OLE vs. Active technology: The name OLE denotes the technologies associated with linking and embedding, including OLE containers, OLE servers, OLE items, in-place activation (or visual editing), trackers, drag and drop, menu merging. The term Active applies to the Component Object Model (COM) and COM-based objects such as ActiveX controls. OLE Automation is now called Automation.

What do you want to know more about?

• What OLE is all about, and the various OLE technologies.

• Activation

• Automation

• Automation Clients

• Automation Servers

• Connection Points

• Containers

• Data objects and data sources: OLE uniform data transfer.

• Drag and drop.

• OLE menus and resources

• Remote Automation

• Registration.

• Servers

• Trackers