Rating:  Summary: Strongly recommended Review: This book discussions of COM is very thorough and hands on exercises provide immediate feedback. This book will broaden your understanding of COM
Rating:  Summary: Excelent presentation of DCOM for Visual Basic programmers Review: This book explains the underlying architecture and complexities of COM, and shows what advantages it offers to Visual Basic developers. This well organized book first explains how to build simple COM components and then complex ones like ActiveX Controls. Code sample and exercises reinforce the presented material. The chapter on Transaction Server explains the issues of scalability. This is the best book on DCOM for the VB programmer.
Rating:  Summary: General info, no specifics Review: This book had no specifics on how to build components. Just background info.
Rating:  Summary: Very Informative & Great Exercises Review: This book has really helped me jump into learning how to create server side components for Microsoft Transaction server and components for stand alone applications as well. From the history of VB and COM to finely tuned real world examples, this book covers it all. Although it could have done without the Internet primer (like what is HTML?) I think a majority of the book is chalk full of COM and VB goodies. Enjoy! I sure did...
Rating:  Summary: A nice intro to COM. Review: This book is excellent if you're new to COM. But, If you already understand the basics, Save your money.
Rating:  Summary: A comprehensive VB and COM integration Review: This book presents a complex topic of COM with great clarity. IFor the last 2 years I was trying to understand COM with VB, and finally I got it. By doing do it yourself exercises I was able to test and reinforce my understanding. Thanks.
Rating:  Summary: Racing to a standstill Review: This is a great book for beginners. There is a little bit of repetition. I think that the authors could have made it a little more advanced though, with bigger and better examples.
Rating:  Summary: http://www.aw.com/cseng/20thcentbookwinners.shtml Review: This is a great book! It diggs deep into COM to present it clearly and intuitively. It is impressive that an author of the top award winning COM book was able to present COM features from VB with such clarity and emphaty with a reader who is not yet familiar with COM.
Rating:  Summary: http://www.aw.com/cseng/20thcentbookwinners.shtml Review: This is a great book! It diggs deep into COM to present it clearly and intuitively. It is impressive that an author of the top award winning COM book was able to present COM features from VB with such clarity and emphaty with a reader who is not yet familiar with COM.
Rating:  Summary: A broad survey of components for the VB developer Review: This is a well written and logical survey of COM from a VB perspective. With only 371 pages of text, it attempts to tackle a broad subject area. The level of complexity is comparable to what is expected in the VB Distributed exam (70-175), for which it is an excellent study adjunct.I enjoyed reading it from end to end, and keep it as a reference for certain developer skills that I use infrequently. While I consider the book to be aimed at a "beginner" in COM, beginners in COM are at least intermediate level VB developers. The moniker on the cover, "for enterprise developers", is a little misleading, since serious enterprise VB developers will need more detail than is provided. However, in creating a survey aimed at broadening one's understanding of all of Microsoft's COM technologies, the Eddons are successful. Weaknesses: The book is far too brief for so broad a subject matter. For example, a single chapter on MTS (the lifeblood of n-tier architecture performance) can only touch the highlights. Creation of ActiveX controls gets much deeper coverage. Another weakness is the (not unexpected) Microsoft optimism with respect to the performance and robustness of COM technologies. A healthy dose of caveats is lacking. Conclusion: A good introduction to COM for intermediate level VB developers. A superb study adjunct for 70-175 candidates.
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