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Summary: Excellent "How To" ATL COM book
Review: This book gives excellent coverage on the "How To" of ATL COM (It doesn't spend too much time on what COM is - get the Don Box Essential Com book for that). Nice coverage of ATL without the overhead of MFC. Uses VC++ 5.0. The Wrox site contains info on using this book with VC 6.
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Summary: This book is a very good introduction to ATL
Review: This book is clear, well-written, and concise, and provides a very good introduction to ATL. The examples are straight-to-the-point, accurate, and explained well. It covers all the basics of ATL. Programmers wanting to write ActiveX controls with ATL would do well to start with this book, then move on to "ActiveX Control Programming", also from Wrox Press.
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Summary: yuck
Review: this book is horrible. i find it hard to believe that grimes contributed to this book. whether you're a beginner or not, check out grimes' excellent book "professional dcom programming" instead.
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Summary: Not for beginner
Review: This book is not for a beginner who wants to learn ATL Com programming. It is badly organized. Sometimes a reader will not know what the author is talking about. Especially for a beginner. If someone wants to learn something about programming Atl Com, read other books instead this one.
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Summary: Not for beginners to COM
Review: This book might be appropriate for someone who already is very familiar with COM, but it is by no means good for beginners. I bought it thinking that it would get me started, but it only made things seem more complicated. Once I had read another book on COM, I began to understand some of the contents of this book. Of course, then I realized how poorly organized and written it is, so my opinion didn't improve much.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book reads like a novel. After reading 'Beginning Linux Programming' 2 yrs ago, I had no respect for Wrox Press because of lack of details, however, this book was a fantastic one. But then again, I have read "Inside COM" and "Essential COM" prior to this reading. If you have a good understanding of how COM works, get this book. It is an awesome intro to ATL. Check out "ATL internals" & "Proffesional ATL COM programming" as well if you are a serious ATL developer
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Summary: Good for a jump start into the Worl of ATL...
Review: This book really did help me to gear up for the ATL/COM project. It took a while, but gave a solid insight of the ATL architecture. I had a few questions which were difficult to find in other books which were revealed pretty neatly in this book. If you are an experienced C++/Windows programmer and want to start of ATL-COM, this book is the best bet. Just with this book alone, you will reach from the beginner to the Intermediate level in a jiffy. Of course you are better off buying other books, but this one is highly recommended if are about to embark into the world of ATL.
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Summary: An excellent guide to writing COM code using ATL.
Review: This book was a real find! I found the programming examples understandable and the material presented in an appropriate fashion. For example, in Chap 3, the author(s) recommend that you browse the material on some of the obtuse macros and templates behind ATL; try the examples near the end of the chapter; then come back and reread the difficult passages. It worked! I have rarely come as far in understanding through just one book. And thank you Wrox for maintaining such a useful Web site!!
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Summary: How could anyone rate this book poorly?
Review: This book was one of the best that I have read on a particulartopic...The authors provide a lot of instruction about how to readthe book, recommending, for example, that you read through the chapter before actually attempting the examples. This is, of course, a standard recommendation (which in my experience many readers of technical material do not follow). Following this advice, I found that the authors were correct, and the material was far more understandable. I am NOT a proficient C++ programmer. Yet by the end of the book I was able to create my own bug-free COM server with a full object heirarchy including a collection. I had been unable to understand implementing collections in C++ with other books. My intent was to have a C++ COM server so that I could hook up a VB client and study the interaction of the two at the lowest possible (for me) level. I wanted watch calls to QueryInterface, watch reference counts increment and decrement. I wanted to see how COM objects were intialized and destroyed. I succeeded, thanks to this book. END
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Summary: Wait for an updated version
Review: This book was targeting VC5.0/ATL2.0. Some examples badly work with VC6.0/ATL3.0 : especially creating - and destroying ! - a modeless dialog box in an exe server, and connection points implementations when client and server are ATL based. I also agree with other readers about the rather convoluted organization of this book, and the strange mix of simple explanations and deep thoughts on ATL that keep me confused about its usability.
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