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Title: Not a good book
Review: In this book, the author just describes most of the components of ATL applications. That's a very different thing from explaining the "whys". This means : if you don't have previous knowledge of COM, you will get a plain static picture of every component of COM, but you won't learn what the role of that component is inside your application, and what is the relation among these components. For example, the author describes the example programs line by line, but he fails to explain in detail the purpose of this lines and their implications for the rest of the program. Finally, the book is too superfitial, and it seems that the sole purpose of it is to generate profits not to teach the reader. I guess the other five-start-givers-readers had previous knowledge of COM or they just wanted to have an superfitial idea of ATL and COM. Of course, not my case.
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