Readtut: Tutorial Reading Utility

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The Readtut sample builds a simple readtut.exe application that is used as the main utility for reading the online tutorial for the COM Tutorial samples. The tutorial.exe utility, found in the main tutorial directory, is produced in this sample. To do this, a copy of readtut.exe is simply renamed to tutorial.exe and placed in the main tutorial directory where it provides the main tutorial entry for the entire series. This lesson shows the technique used by each tutorial sample to read the tutorial page for that sample from within the running sample. This lesson also shows a very simple Win32 EXE application that links to the Apputil library and uses utility functions in it. Apputil is linked to and used in this manner throughout the tutorial sample series.

For functional descriptions and a tutorial code tour of Readtut, see the Code Tour section in readtut.htm. For details on the external user operation of Readtut, see both the Usage and Operation sections in readtut.htm. To read readtut.htm, run tutorial.exe in the main tutorial directory and click the READTUT lesson in the table of lessons. You can also achieve the same thing by clicking the readtut.htmfile after locating the main tutorial directory in the Windows Explorer.

See the parent topic, COM Tutorial Samples, to download global tutorial files or any HTML files about this sample.

Building SDK Samples

This sample uses the following keywords:

coinitialize; couninitialize; defined; delaybox; goweb; makeintresource; messagebox; readtutorial; skipansi; succeeded; text; winmain