How to deal with annoying Server Busy dialog box ?

22Jul08

While programming for COM, you must have encountered this annoying “Server Busy” dialog box. This happens when the MFC COM Client is calling some method in the COM Server, that takes a long time to process. Until the method returns, nothing can be done in the client side and this dialog box pops up.
To deal [...]

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Tags: AfxOleInit, COleMessageFilter, OLE Server Busy, OleInitialize

BSTR to CString and CString to BSTR Conversion

22Jul08

A BSTR is a pointer to a null-terminated character string in which the string length is stored with the string. Because the length is stored with the string, BSTR variables can contain embedded null characters.
A CString object consists of a variable-length sequence of characters. CString provides functions and operators using a syntax similar to that [...]

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Tags: BSTR, COM, CString, MFC