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Summary: A very clear and comprehensive book
Review: The best book I ever read about ATL. Chapter 3 is a pure jewel and shows how it is possible to really support multiple interfaces on the same object in ATL. A must.
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Summary: Hardcore ATL
Review: Often times Microsoft technologies are not afforded serious treatment by publishers. However, Addison-Wesley has gone a long way towards providing a remedy for this situation. "ATL Internals" is yet another milestone in that progression and simply put, is the best work on the subject to date. The writing is lucid, succinct, and poignant from cover to cover. Rector and Sells should be commended for their efforts in bringing a lantern to the dark world of COM/C++ programming.
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Summary: ATL is finally easy to understand!
Review: I had often looked into Atlbase.h, Atlcom.h et al. and quickly got lost into so many structures and templates floating around. I have read many books on ATL, and the Online doucumentation..but things did not click! After just reading chapters 3,4, and 5 of the book, it is now a joy to look under the hoods of ATL and "get it". It is, by far, one of the best well-written books I have read.
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Summary: An excellent ATL/COM book
Review: I'm working with ATL daily and using it from its first release version on summer 1996. But during last one and a half weeks that I spend reading this book I resorted, recollected and learned quite a lot of things. I would highly recommend reading this book to anyone who is working or planning to work with ATL.Valery Pryamikov. Senior System Developer. Siemens Metering AS, Norway.
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Summary: A must have - I ordered one for everyone on my team
Review: Brent and Chris have done a most excellent job of providing an all-encompasing overview of the librarie's design as well as a detailed microscopic analysis of ATL's implementation. As they say in the beginning of the book, if you've done your homework and read Don's book "Essential COM" from cover to cover, this book will help unleash the power of ATL for your own development needs. I ordered a box of 10 copies for my team! Having 'ATL Internals' on everybodies desk is like having Brent and Chris as virtual team members. Thanks guys!
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Summary: Best book to understand the workings of ATL
Review: Very easy to read and understand. A must have for anyone wanting to learn COM programming using ATL.
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Summary: The ultimate ATL guide
Review: I finally got my copy and after reading most of it in one go I have to say that this book simply should be considered the official ATL developer's guide. It covers all aspects of ATL, including its flaws and pitfalls, and really shows the simplicity, flexibility and elegance of ATL. The authors go beyond enumerating (pun) the classes and their purposes but dwell into the internals and plumbing of ATL, thus justifying the title. The book reflects the authors' active part in the ATL community, their engagement in the ATL mailing list and forums. If you're a developer eager to leverage your COM and ATL knowledge and understanding, this book is a must !
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Summary: Very Excellent!
Review: Just got it! I am rockin' I am rollin' I cannot be stopped!!!
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Summary: A must for ATL programmers
Review: Like Programming Windows by Charles Petzold give the best introduction to Windows And the Win32 Programming by Rector was in fact the next book to be read. I can said that Essential Com by Don Box open your eyes to COM and ATL internals by Rector and Sells give to you a book that Bring to you the next step . This book is a must for anyone who wants to develop serious applications with ATL.
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Summary: Easy to read - Easy to understand
Review: This is a great book. I received the copy recently, and this is a definitive guide to ATL. Actually, this is not only a ATL book, the authors give more information, through their experience. For example, the talk on Unicode and MBCS/DBCS. These are the stuff developers need. Whether you are using ATL today or not, it helps a great deal to read this book. One compliant though!!. I didn't like the cover of the book.
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