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COMEvents Sample: Demonstrates Creating and Using COM Events

The COMEvents sample demonstrates event handling using COM.

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  • On the Help menu, click Samples.

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Building and Running the Sample

To build and run COMEvents

  1. Open the solution file COMEvents.sln.

  2. From the Build menu, click Build Solution.

  3. Right-click the EventReceiver node in Solution Explorer and select Set as Startup Project.

  4. From the Debug menu, click Start Without Debugging.

How the Sample Works

The COMEvents sample creates an event source CSource and an event receiver CSink using the event_source and event_receiver attributes, respectively.

The event source declares the methods in the interfaces IEvent, IEvent2, and IJW as events (see Ifaces.h for the interface definitions).

The event receiver declares handler methods f1 through f6, and hooks each of these handlers to an event.

The main code instantiates CSource and CSink. The CSink constructor performs the hooking. The main code then fires the events, unhooks the events, then fires the events again.

See Also

Other Resources

Event Handling Samples