Everything about OLE Automation
Inter-process communication mechanism
In Microsoft Windows applications programming, OLE Automation is an inter-process communication mechanism created by Microsoft. It is based on a subset of Component Object Model (COM) that was intended for use by scripting languages – originally Visual Basic – but now is used by several languages on Windows. All automation objects are required to implement the IDispatch interface. It provides an infrastructure whereby applications called automation controllers can access and manipulate shared automation objects that are exported by other applications. It supersedes Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), an older mechanism for applications to control one another. As with DDE, in OLE Automation the automation controller is the "client" and the application exporting the automation objects is the "server". Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: OLE AutomationA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The automated lighting programmer's handbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The role of trust in automation relianceCited 1,105 times
- Go sideways: Component Object ModelA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Windows RuntimeA closely related topic
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đź“š Books worth reading
The automated lighting programmer's handbookBrad Schiller · 2010
Proceedings of 2013 Chinese Intelligent Automation ConferenceZengqi Sun · 2013
Automated lightingRichard Cadena · 2006
Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonAl Sweigart · 2015
Automated image detection of retinal pathologyHerbert Jelinek, Michael J. Cree · 2009
Fully Automated Luxury CommunismAaron Bastani · 2019- 📕Automation in the Virtual Testing of Mechanical SystemsOle Ivar Sivertsen, Bjorn Haugen · 2018
Exploring expectDon Libes · 1994
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