OLE Topics

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This family of articles explains the fundamentals of OLE programming using MFC.

Note   OLE vs. Active technology: The name OLE denotes the technologies associated with linking and embedding, including OLE containers, OLE servers, OLE items, in-place activation (or visual editing), trackers, drag and drop, menu merging. The term Active applies to the Component Object Model (COM) and COM-based objects such as ActiveX controls. OLE Automation is now called Automation.

What do you want to know more about?

• What OLE is all about, and the various OLE technologies.
  
  
• Activation
  
  
• Automation
  
  
• Automation Clients
  
  
• Automation Servers
  
  
• Connection Points
  
  
• Containers
  
  
• Data objects and data sources: OLE uniform data transfer.
  
  
• Drag and drop.
  
  
• OLE menus and resources
  
  
• Remote Automation
  
  
• Registration.
  
  
• Servers
  
  
• Trackers