type library book

[cksiow]

I am a beginner in type library, could anyone suggest a good book for this,
for beginner, step by step guides on creating type library, some kind like
idiot to .....

thanks

[Jonathan Wood]

Your best reference is microsoft.com, or MSDN if you subscribe. I don't know
of any Dummy's Guide to... books for this because it is generally an
advanced topic. But there might be something I'm unaware of.

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com
"cksiow" <cksiow@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am a beginner in type library, could anyone suggest a good book for
this,
> for beginner, step by step guides on creating type library, some kind like
> idiot to .....
>
> thanks
>

[Jonathan Wood]

Your best reference is microsoft.com, or MSDN if you subscribe. I don't know
of any Dummy's Guide to... books for this because it is generally an
advanced topic. But there might be something I'm unaware of.

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com
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> I am a beginner in type library, could anyone suggest a good book for
this,
> for beginner, step by step guides on creating type library, some kind like
> idiot to .....
>
> thanks
>

[Matthew Curland]

Essential IDL (Martin Gudgin) would be a good place to start if you want to
get into the nitty gritty details of writing IDL. However, IDL encompasses a
lot more than just generating type libraries. A number of the attributes you
see in IDL (size_is, etc) are not part of a typelib. If you don't want to
get into IDL, by far the easiest way to create a type library is with the
type library editing tools in my book. You get point and click access to all
type lib features with no idl: you'll be an expert in minutes or hours
instead of days or weeks. The attributes shown in the editor exactly mirror
those documented in the IDL/ODL references in MSDN, so you have lots of
information available to you there. You should also use my book if you want
an in-depth description of the type libraries that VB generates, and how it
responds to different elements in non-VB typelibs.

If the goal is to generate typelibs dynamically at runtime for an add-in or
some similar tool, then you're looking at accessing the typelib API
directly, which is a much different problem than creating and editing a
static typelib. -Matt

"cksiow" <cksiow@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am a beginner in type library, could anyone suggest a good book for
this,
> for beginner, step by step guides on creating type library, some kind like
> idiot to .....
>
> thanks
>

[Matthew Curland]

Essential IDL (Martin Gudgin) would be a good place to start if you want to
get into the nitty gritty details of writing IDL. However, IDL encompasses a
lot more than just generating type libraries. A number of the attributes you
see in IDL (size_is, etc) are not part of a typelib. If you don't want to
get into IDL, by far the easiest way to create a type library is with the
type library editing tools in my book. You get point and click access to all
type lib features with no idl: you'll be an expert in minutes or hours
instead of days or weeks. The attributes shown in the editor exactly mirror
those documented in the IDL/ODL references in MSDN, so you have lots of
information available to you there. You should also use my book if you want
an in-depth description of the type libraries that VB generates, and how it
responds to different elements in non-VB typelibs.

If the goal is to generate typelibs dynamically at runtime for an add-in or
some similar tool, then you're looking at accessing the typelib API
directly, which is a much different problem than creating and editing a
static typelib. -Matt

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> I am a beginner in type library, could anyone suggest a good book for
this,
> for beginner, step by step guides on creating type library, some kind like
> idiot to .....
>
> thanks
>