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Summary: The best way to learn COM/COM+
Review: As people have stated below, this is an updated "Inside DCOM" book. Why are they complaining though? It states that on the back cover!! It's true, this book does not go into the nitty gritty of anything specific to COM+. But if you want to know the "Base"-ics then get this book. After looking through many many COM+ books this is easily the winner. No BS. But you need to be a C++ programmer to understand a good deal of it.
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Summary: The best book about the topic
Review: Five months ago I read another book by the same authors: Programming Components with MS Visual Basic and I was very impressed. I was able to understand how to program COM from VB! Recently, I read Inside COM+ Base Services. It took me over five weeks to digest it, but then I understood its value. I was suprised to find a reviewer with such strong negative feeling about the authors of these books. Maybe he should not treat this book as a novel but spend some real time trying to understand it.
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Summary: the best book on COM
Review: I bought this book thinking it was strictly on COM+. I was wrong. This book covers the basics of COM such as apartment, automation, connection points, and persistance. It is almost as informative as "essential COM" yet much much easier to read. As a COM book, this is definitely a must have. As far as COM+ is concerned, this book doesn't delve much into the internals of COM+ services and new features such as context, load balancing, transaction, msmq, and all the rest of the COM+ services. The author states these information will be available in volume 2 of this book. I wonder when the volume 2 is due. I would definitely buy it. The content is good. It couldn't have been better as far as explaining COM. As for COM+, the name of this book was very misleading.
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Summary: The best book about the topic
Review: I have a lot of books about COM and ActiveX, including "Essential COM", "Inside COM", "ATL internals", "Professional ATL Programming", "Inside OLE", "Essential COM and ActiveX". This is by far the best. It has explained the concept of COM very clearly, with very good examples. As someone say it has many topics similar to the author's "Inside Distributed COM", I think it is because COM+ is based on DCOM concept and Microsoft often change the words.
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Summary: Very good book with no Mambo Jambo and detailed explenation.
Review: I have read a coupple of books about COM and ATL but this is definitely the best!!! It explains ATL in details from the bottom and up, you don't need any earlier XP to read it and you don't need very much fill in afterwards (except the OLE DB stuff which it doesn't explain at all...) In fact if you're eager to learn COM it's also probably one of the best books around since it's detailed explenation of COM in the early chapters are very good and easy to understand. If you're going to learn ATL you probably can NOT manage withouth this piece of paper. It also does a marvelous job explaining the basics of templates so you don't need any XP from before except C++ and a bit of Win32/MFC programming, but even this is not a requirement since the ATL is so much different from "normal" Win32/MFC programming.
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Summary: To buy or not to buy, it isn't the question
Review: If you knew COM/DCOM, you don't need this book; if you want to learn COM+ and have no interest in old COM stuff, this book offer a lot what you doesn't want, and no much what you want;if you only want to learn old COM, get "Inside COM" instead, more clear and cheaper-besides MS might be working on a better book on COM+.
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Summary: COM+ in pieces
Review: This book breaks COM+ into little pieces and makes it look easy. I have a significant amount of books on COM/COM+ and this is definitely the best. I got it at half price but I think that is too much of a bargain. Note: You must know C++ and a bit of COM to appreciate the value of this book.
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Summary: Diving into the details of COM+
Review: This book delivers tons of programming knowledge. It dives into the details of COM+ and provides deep understanding of what is going on when you create components. I recommend this book to developers that want in depth COM+ knowledge.
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Summary: EXCELLENT COVERAGE OF BASE SERVICES
Review: This book presents the complexities of COM(+) with exceptional clarity. This book deals with COM deepest internals and key concepts are presented in a clear and understandable way. This is "The Book" about COM(+) and I was not suprised that it was the top choice of the: http://www.aw.com/cseng/20thcentbookwinners.shtml
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Summary: A good COM book, however, don't let the title mislead you.
Review: This is a good book about COM. However, if your looking for material about the new services provided by COM+ you will be disappointed. As the author states, this information will be provided in the forthcoming book from microsoft press book entitled 'COM+ Component Services'. This book is basically an updated 'Inside Distrubuted COM' from the same author - which is a good book.
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