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Summary: Great Beginner's COM Book
Review: I'm new to VB programming and found this book a great resource. I reference it regularly (which should say something about it). I have 2 other VB books... one by ActivePath and another by SAMS, and I've found this to be by far the most useful. One perspective may be that it gets a little too basic sometimes, but it's done in the spirit of being complete. Lewis gives background to the concepts to ensure the reader has a foundation for the teaching he's trying to provide.
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Summary: Excellent intro for newbies, backfiller for more experienced
Review: I've been doing COM development in VB for just over a year, and I just purchased this book for our office. I like WROX books in general and I figured this would be a good introductory book for those in our department with less experience. I read it first to evaluate it for this use and think it will fill that role nicely. What I didn't expect was the number of "introductory" tidbits that helped fill in my existing knowledge of VB and COM. An excellent choice and I too look forward to the next in the series.
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Summary: Learn COM and VB with fun !!
Review: If you know VB but never felt the presence of COM in your development, then this book is the right one to make you realize that you know COM too. There were lots of books on COM which describe this technology from the C++ perspective. It is a great work, although price could have been little less. I like this book as a development companion.
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Summary: Fantastic Resource
Review: It was a fantastic resource that explains COM very well. It's targeted towards beginning programmers, assuming very little about a programmer's foreknowledge of VB. It even walks through wizard examples.I've had the book for about 2 years now and I still use it as a basic reference book whenever I have a spacey moment on a fundemental aspect of COM. Excellent starter book that I've recommended to many friends along the way.
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Summary: Fantastic Resource
Review: It was a fantastic resource that explains COM very well. It's targeted towards beginning programmers, assuming very little about a programmer's foreknowledge of VB. It even walks through wizard examples. I've had the book for about 2 years now and I still use it as a basic reference book whenever I have a spacey moment on a fundemental aspect of COM. Excellent starter book that I've recommended to many friends along the way.
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: Lewis handles abstract/threoretical subjects with an easy to understand, conversational style. He uses great examples and successfully completed my understanding of COM technologies. I was very impressed.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Most programmers are so caught up in Computer Science Theory that they lose you in the dialog matrix of lexicons unbeknownst to us all. Thomas Lewis is an excellent light hearted writer who's ability write easy to read, intelligent, and resourceful books is only outweighed by his knowledge of COM. This book covers everything from the history of COM, unweaving the mysteries of the names OLE, DCOM, ActiveX, DLL, etc. Go buy now! Yes, just do it! Be implusive!
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Summary: Good Intro
Review: Perfect little intro for VB COM, touching on the basic concepts on how to develop COM objects with VB. Also, it is a very good companion for anyone studying for the MCSD 70-175 or I suppose 70-176 exams on COM subjects.
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Summary: This is a great book .
Review: Should be a required reading for programmers who have known C++ before learning VB.
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Summary: Muddled, confusing, and silly: a major disappointment
Review: The author adds confusion to an already confusing subject, and uses bizarre examples and analogies--barnyard animals, for instance. (Yes, you read that right.) I had hoped to finally learn how COM related to and differed from ActiveX, and this book failed in that completely. And I didn't realize it was so easy to publish a book without any editing. Some of the typos are embarassing, and the sentence structures can be mind-twisting. And cut out all the fluff, please! A major disappointment.
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