Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Advanced Insight
Review: This book provides excellent insight into the operation of .Net and .Net with COM.
It is for someone who wants to understand how it works rather than how to make it work ie. more for a designer than a coder. This info is a lot more difficult to obtain than how to use the various framework classes.
It also lets you know where the performance issues are going to cause problem.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent coverage of an essential topic.
Review: This is a "second level" book. You had best already be pretty familiar with .NET and C#, because coverage of these topics is not at an introductory level. The COM+ coverage is similarly paced, but has a lot more introductory material.But that is one of the reasons I like this book. I don't NEED another introduction to .NET or to C#, and there are other COM+ books as well. What this book does very well is show how COM+ and .NET go together, how, in fact, they must go together if you plan to do enterprise level development. Beyer is a very good writer, at least to my taste. He covers a lot of material with not a lot of words, and he does it with great clarity. He doesn't need 1200 pages and huge margins. .NET and COM+ are partner technologies and one does not replace the other, so this book covers a very important topic and does it very well.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent coverage of an essential topic.
Review: This is a "second level" book. You had best already be pretty familiar with .NET and C#, because coverage of these topics is not at an introductory level. The COM+ coverage is similarly paced, but has a lot more introductory material. But that is one of the reasons I like this book. I don't NEED another introduction to .NET or to C#, and there are other COM+ books as well. What this book does very well is show how COM+ and .NET go together, how, in fact, they must go together if you plan to do enterprise level development. Beyer is a very good writer, at least to my taste. He covers a lot of material with not a lot of words, and he does it with great clarity. He doesn't need 1200 pages and huge margins. .NET and COM+ are partner technologies and one does not replace the other, so this book covers a very important topic and does it very well.
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