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The COM Programmer's Cookbook
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Crispin Goswell
Microsoft Office Product Unit

Spring 1995
Revised: September 13, 1995
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809982.aspx
Abstract
This cookbook shows you how to create Microsoft® OLE Component Object Model (COM) objects and use them effectively.
The examples are mostly in C, as this shows most clearly what is actually being done.
Some programmers will prefer to use C++ to implement their objects.
Kraig Brockschmidt's book Inside OLE (2nd edition) (MSDN Library, Books)
covers the concepts of COM and basic usage from the C++ programmer's perspective.
Readers interested in gaining a better understanding of what COM is, as well as the motivations behind its design and philosophy,
should read the first two chapters of the Component Object Model Specification (MSDN Library, Specifications).
Chapter 1 is a brief introduction, and Chapter 2 provides a thorough overview.
This cookbook builds on the information found in Inside OLE and the COM specification by showing some good ways to implement COM objects.