Week 7 - February 17
  
Due Today
Preparation for Class
 | Read through the chapter once doing any exercises. Focus on how to perform
the operations described. |
| Read through the chapter again. This time focus on WHY you are doing
certain things and what is actually happening when you do them. |
| Try to understand the differences between what is happening when you
paste, embed or link. What data is stored? Where is it stored? |
| Try to understand the role of the client program and the server program.
What is the role of each? Is it different in embedding and linking? |
Topics Covered in this Class
| Review of Mid-Term Exam Results
 | General results |
| Review of exam questions and answers |
| Discussion of any problems |
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| Intermediate Tutorial 3
| The Clipboard |
| Copying, Cutting and Pasting |
| Embedding |
| Linking |
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| Object Linking and Embedding
| What is it for? |
| Some History |
| Processes, threads and memory spaces |
| COM, OLE and ActiveX |
| COM and OLE in the registry |
| Pasting, Embedding and Linking differences |
| How COM communicates between processes |
| How COM communicates between machines |
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Resources
Assignments
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