CST(66)-Compound Documents

A compound document is nothing but more than a metaphor for organizing collections of components and through containment relationships. The document is essentially a collection site for components and data that can come from variety of sources. OLE is one of the tools to create a compound document. Even the desk top is the container of the components and they can placed any where for drag and drop.

Compound Document Frame work :

The compound document frame work provides the protocols that let the component managing a document communicate with the components that own the objects within the documents. They also allow each components effectively share the resources such as document file or a window screen.

It provides four value added services to its components such as visual layout , structured storage, Scripting and Automation and uniform data transfer.