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Summary: Excellent advanced COM+ book
Review: I started my COM+ learning experience with Peishu Li's "Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example" and then used this book to get a more advanced look at COM+. This was NOT money wasted. I highly recommend both books to users wanting the learn about COM+ and n-tier. This book is very well written. Developers with a background in MTS may want to skip the "by Example" book but you definitely want to read this book. Scot Hillier understands COM+ (and MTS for that matter) and his style of writing is pleasant to read.
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Summary: Excellent advanced COM+ book
Review: I started my COM+ learning experience with Peishu Li's "Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example" and then used this book to get a more advanced look at COM+. This was NOT money wasted. I highly recommend both books to users wanting the learn about COM+ and n-tier. This book is very well written. Developers with a background in MTS may want to skip the "by Example" book but you definitely want to read this book. Scot Hillier understands COM+ (and MTS for that matter) and his style of writing is pleasant to read.
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Summary: One of the most practical COM+ books around
Review: If you are interested in the nuts and bolts of COM+ programming with VB this is where you should begin. This book has a great balance between practice and theory. Almost every chapter has a discussion about a topic followed by a step by step exercise. The concepts are explained in a well written and clear manner. This book really shines in discussing COM+ fundementals, data access techniques, COM+ transactions, message queueing, and COM+ and the internet, and security. It is a must read for an intermediate to advanced Com programmer who wants to really understand the subject and possibly get rid of some bad design decisions. The book concludes with a practical e-commerce application that tie all the concepts together. This book is a must read for any COM+ web developer. Another book worth mentioning is Ted Pattison's COM+ progrmming book which is heavy on theory and a touch light on practical code. This is one of the best programming books in my library.
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Summary: Short and sweet
Review: If you are like me; fed up with shoebox size books that are written by 20 people writing half a chapter each with no continuity and a lot of unnecessary information, you are looking at the right book.Like many people I know, I made the transition from COM to COM+ without reading anything and just porting my COM components to COM+. Recently when I had some time at hand, I picked up this book and read it in two days (yeah, try doing that with those 1200 pages books). It's an excellent book but here is a word of caution for you; it's not a beginner's book to COM+. If you have been working with COM (or at least know how to make a DLL and use it in VB), you are the audience of this book. If you don't know MTS, don't be discouraged, you don't need to know it in order to read this book but you do need to know ADO to understand some of the key concepts of this book. The only downside of the book is that the author, while discussing practical application of concepts, keeps referring to the code on accompanying CD. Well, it would have been better if the code were also printed in the book (I know it would have become a little more voluminous but not a shoebox). I found it sort of distracting. As for me, the CD is still sealed in the package it came in and I guessed the code all the way and the guesses worked 9 out of 10 times. It doesn't mean that I am a very good developer; it's only that the author has kept the examples simple. All in all, a true value for your money.
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Summary: Short, Simple and Sweet - Excellent COM+ Book for VB
Review: It's a great book to possess, When it comes to Component programming. After Don Box "Essiential COM", this is by far the best COM+ book I have read. It will give you good understanding about not just writing but design and implementing COM+ Components. Examples are great and right to the point.
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Summary: Greatest COM+ Book!
Review: Look no further. This is a must have book if you are moving from MTS/COM to the new COM+. The author clearly explains concepts with very practical examples. At the end of each chapter are step-by-step excercises which will get you up to speed in no time. Only 400 pages! Shame on other books who cannnot cover anything useful in a now standard 1000+ pages format costing around $50.00!
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Summary: Hillier writes another winner
Review: Scot Hillier's book COM+ VB is destined to be considered a classic among the great big programming books. I wouldn't jerk you around. In fact I can honestly say I love to read Scot's work. Tony Davidson once said "A Smith can be a common man, but does that mean I see a Smith and think: "There before
heaven go I"? There is absolutely no need to ponder. In fact to ponder this is to get confused. I read and laid down the book again. Soon I'll read more. Joanne Brady
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Summary: Hillier writes another winner
Review: Scot Hillier's book COM+ VB is destined to be considered a classic among the great big programming books. I wouldn't jerk you around. In fact I can honestly say I love to read Scot's work. Tony Davidson once said "A Smith can be a common man, but does that mean I see a Smith and think: "There before
heaven go I"? There is absolutely no need to ponder. In fact to ponder this is to get confused. I read and laid down the book again. Soon I'll read more. Joanne Brady
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Summary: "Blue Collar Programming" for the business developer
Review: This book is a follow up to my book "MTS Programming with Visual Basic". Like all good sequels, you know what to expect before the story even starts. The book is targeted at intermediate developers who know how to create Visual Basic components, understand ADO fundamentals, and have built some Active Server Pages. The goal of the book is to provide a roadmap for creating business applications that use Windows 2000, COM+, Internet Information Server, Active Directory, XML, and SQL Server. The first part of the book covers the design process with emphasis on use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Then the book proceeds through data, business, and user services implementation. Along the way, I cover all the new features of COM+ including events, queued components, and compensating resource managers. Throughout the work, emphasis is placed on web-based solutions along with complete integration of XML into the application. Each chapter has several "Quick Checks" that are short exercises designed to emphasize a point. Each chapter ends with a larger exercise that coordinates several of the topics presented. Finally, the entire book ends with a complete Windows DNA application built with the techniques presented in the earlier chapters. This book is ideal for those interested in solving business problems.
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Summary: The best COM+ book ever
Review: this is far the best com book I have read. I am happy to be in possession of one
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