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Summary: Re-titling of old book
Review: David has done us all a great service in writing this book. His clear explanations and relevant code samples speak volumes. If you've never read anything about OLE, this is the place to start. I especially liked how he shows the pure OLE way to do things and then compares that with using MFC to do the same thing. He also points out many of the gotcha's when using MFC. His writing style is clear and his sense of humour is entertaining. All I can say is get it. It's definitely worth it!
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Summary: An excellent book for the beginner
Review: David has done us all a great service in writing this book. His clear explanations and relevant code samples speak volumes. If you've never read anything about OLE, this is the place to start. I especially liked how he shows the pure OLE way to do things and then compares that with using MFC to do the same thing. He also points out many of the gotcha's when using MFC. His writing style is clear and his sense of humour is entertaining. All I can say is get it. It's definitely worth it!
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Summary: Harvard Extension School uses this book.
Review: Platt says "Without warning, OLE will turn on you, and will bite you. You just have to bite back harder." This book, the core of Platt's OLE course at the Harvard Extension School in Cambridge, is excellent at revealing the basics. Furthermore, Platt has designed the book with some pages intentionally blank, in order to accommodate topics which are best presented across the left and right pages. This approach presents certain code samples in a contiguous, understandable fashion.
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Summary: Good book for who want to enter OLE/ActiveX world
Review: This book raise an interest. Tired man who have read Inside OLE or other boring book may be say that wow~~. Simple but powerful book. This book is really essencial book who want to dig depth OLE/ActiveX
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Summary: Re-titling of old book
Review: When I started reading this book, I thought it looked pretty good. Then I started to see goofy assertions about how the author thought C++ should be coded (which were downright wrong). It makes me mad when people assume that the way to program in C++ is the way MFC is programmed. This book perpertuates this idea. Telling people that multiple inheritance in bad has no place in this book. If the author does not understand the proper use of this C++ feature, then they should not discuss it. It is hardly pertinent to the subject in the first place.I also noticed that the book was originally OLE stuff that has been re-purposed for ActiveX. There are nuggets of information if you want to wade through this book though.
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