Rating: 
Summary: Go For It
Review: Wonderful book that digs into the detalis in a very easy and smooth way
Rating:
Summary: Great book
Review: This book is very easy to follow. I've heard that COM is a very hard subject to learn, however, this book illustrates COM in a very understandable manner. I would recommand it to anyone who are familiar with C++. But if you are a beginner c++ programmer, I don't think you will be able to understand very well. all in all, great book with good details.
Rating:
Summary: THE book to learn COM
Review: This book is fun to read and very, very clear. Not for somebody who already knows COM well, but perfect for the beginner. I'd recommend "Essential COM" as a second book, but go for this one first.
Rating:
Summary: Great book!
Review: Frenkly, I just can't understand how someone found this book unsatisfying. Inside COM is a great book, which explains COM (and some DCOM and ActiveX) in the most in-depth and interesting way. The author is also a very good writer and managed to make a technical computer book a fun book to read that made me laugh over and over again. And again: great book!
Rating:
Summary: Congratulation Mr. Rogerson. Write more! Please!
Review: My hat is off to Rogerson on this one. After searching endlessly it seemed for a good solid intro to COM I finally found one. I was getting lost by several other texts and finding only pieces of the puzzle with snippets and articles (praise to Dr. GUI) and I needed to something to help me assemble it all and give me a solid intro to this very complex topic. This is the book. Barely into chapter 3 and I can tell you not only does this book give you a very solid intro but leaves nothing out... including many of the why's and how's. I agree with the statement "the beginning is EVERYTHING in COM". When you are ready for more, get essential COM. But for starters, I have yet to find a more solid book; and I've looked around.
Rating:
Summary: An excellent introduction to COM.
Review: COM is an incredbily complex technology, so difficult to comprehend that its concepts are only understood by a relative few. This book does everything possible to simplify and explain COM, step by step. While this book *may* not give you that real-world insight you might have hoped for, it gives you that ever-so-necessary first step. And in COM, the first step is EVERYTHING. Thank goodness this book exists, I have yet to find any book so well suited for introducing a programmer to COM.
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible
Review: The terrible bum-rush style of this book leaves the reader dazed, confused and feeling cheated. Don't buy this book!
Rating:
Summary: Big disappointment
Review: Inside OLE was a classic. This book was awful. It was an embarrassment to the Inside XXX series. I don't think this book taught me a thing.
Rating: 
Summary: Too many words, too little content
Review: There are about 100 pages worth of content in the book. The rest is annoying filler, stories, and what appears to be padding to make the book fatter on the shelf. If you think spending $30 for 100 pages on COM is a good deal, buy it. Otherwise, look for something else (not Beginning ATL COM Programming, please!)
Rating: 
Summary: Wordy, unclear, good concepts, weak details
Review: Gave me a good basic understanding of what COM is, but did not help me AT ALL in understanding how to use or create COM objects.1) I didn't like the wordy, conversational style. I would prefer more step-by-step procedure lists and section summaries. 2) The distinction between "using a COM object" and "creating a COM object" was unclear. Rogerson kept shifting the focus between these two activities, sometimes in the same sentence. 3) His sample code was incomplete, forcing you to go to the disk. I'd prefer complete in-context code samples. I think the book could have delivered more useful information in half the size. If you like verbose reference materials, this is probably a great book. For me it was not helpful.
| 
