COM Programming 2

Continuing from where “COM Programming 1” left off, this course teaches COM automation, EXE Servers, and COM Threading and Apartments.

36 Lessons

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This course is part of Windows Master Developer

$1182 or $120 X 10 installments

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Pavel Yosifovich

Developer, trainer, author and (sometimes) speaker. Founder of TrainSec academy.

25+ years as Software developer, trainer, consultant, author, and speaker. Co-author of “Windows Internals”. Author of “Windows Kernel Programming”, “Windows 10 System Programming, as well as System and kernel programming courses on PentesterAcademy, and “Windows Internals” series of courses on PluralSight.

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COM Programming 2 Course Contents

Chapters included in this course

Automation

This section introduces the course, goals and modules learned. This course covers modules 1-4. Modules 5-7 are covered in “COM Programming 2”.

The course materials, labs, and solutions are provided.

COM Programming 2
COM Programming Lab Manual
Introduction to Automation • 5 mins Preview
IDispatch • 15 mins
C++ Example • 8 mins
Dual Interfaces • 18 mins
ATL Dual Interfaces • 11 mins
Script Client • 9 mins
Automation Types • 18 mins
BSTR Demo • 17 mins
BSTR Wrappers • 3 mins
VARIANT • 6 mins
SAFEARRAY • 6 mins

EXE Servers

This module describes Out of Process COM Servers.

Introduction to EXE Servers • 7 mins
Marshaling • 7 mins
EXE Server Demo • 21 mins
Debugging • 8 mins
Standard Marshaling • 18 mins
Marshaling and IDL • 14 mins
Memory Management • 12 mins
More IDL • 5 mins
EXE Server Implementation • 27 mins
Custom Marshaling • 12 mins
EXE Registration.mp4 • 10 mins
Lab - EXE Server • 22 mins

Threading and Apartments

COM and Threading • 14 mins
COM Apartments • 8 mins
Entering an Apartment • 7 mins
Apartments and the Registry • 17 mins
Apartments and Marshaling • 29 mins
Threads and Apartments • 36 mins
Apartments Summary • 2 mins
The Global Interface Table • 8 mins
The Free Threaded Marshalar • 15 mins
Lab - Icon Handler • 11 mins
Course Summary• 14 mins

Pavel Yosifovich

Developer, trainer, author and (sometimes) speaker. Founder of TrainSec academy.

25+ years as Software developer, trainer, consultant, author, and speaker. Co-author of “Windows Internals”. Author of “Windows Kernel Programming”, “Windows 10 System Programming, as well as System and kernel programming courses on PentesterAcademy, and “Windows Internals” series of courses on PluralSight.

Books and publications

COM Programming 2

Continuing from where “COM Programming 1” left off, this course teaches COM automation, EXE Servers, and COM Threading and Apartments.

Are you a Student? Individual? Freelancer? Apply for discount!