Title: The title is misleading
Review: This is a reference manual for COM programmers who already know how to program with the Active Template Library. Hoping to learn ATL from simple concepts to advanced techniques, I quickly found this book disappointing, because the advanced material begins at around page 20.Incidentally, I found the synopsis of the book description here on Amazon rather amusing: "The Active Template Library (ATL) is the part of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) used to build reusable and very efficient components in C++." From what I can tell, ATL was designed as a lightweight ALTERNATIVE to MFC, not a PART of it!Summary: Difficult book to read. Not at all for beginners. More of a technical reference manual.
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