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Summary: Management Only
Review: EXTREMELY basic. Not worth your time if you are actually going to be programming. 100,000ft view of COM+ if it even got that low.
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Summary: Very Basic - Better Help file
Review: I agree with the previous review. However, the reviewer is much more graceful than I am to give it 4 stars. I read Mr. Platt's previous book - The Essence of COM with ActiveX and I know he is capable of doing better than his latest one. I don't understand why would someone intentionally write a bad book. I also agree with the previous reviewer that there needs to be 2 books on COM+ one on VB and the other on VC. I suggest looking at Mastering COM/COM+ by Rofail/Shohoud, it covers both VB and VC++, it is actually a very good book on the subject. I have not reviewed it yet because I have not gone throw it all but, so far so good.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I began to appreciate the book once I downloaded the samples and debugged them on Dev Studio. This book is for someone who already has a lot of experience in COM, but wants to get their feet wet with COM+ concepts.It would have been nice if more explanation was given on TNA (Thread neutral apartments) and concurrency.
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Summary: Why?
Review: I understand COM+ just fine. I just don't understand why you would buy this book. You could extract the same info from the MSDN and the Windows 2K support site... I guess it saves you the mouse clicks
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I wholeheartedly endorse this book; I read the whole thing and was interested the whole time. Good job.
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Summary: A good overview of COM+, and cheap, too!
Review: In a world of 700 page books, Platt's overview is refreshingly concise (as are his other books). I'm easily bored but made it through almost the whole book except for COM+ events, which are exceptionally dry and one of the few silly-sounding features of COM+. The book consists of a chapter per COM+ feature. Each chapter explains the rationale and the usage of the feature. Skipping from chapter to chapter is no problem. Code samples are available online, I haven't seen them. One warning is about Dave's humor: I chuckled or laughed through much of the book, but those who wish to be offended will get their desire.
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Summary: Nice introduction for each topic
Review: Platt gives a really structured introduction for each case-solution pair. However, this book doesn't tell you more on "how-to". It's kind of a light-weight tech. book. If you need to catch the concept of COM+, Platt can tell you on this book.
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Summary: Outdated and useless
Review: This book contains lots of outdated information. In memory DB for example was removed from Windows 2000. It still is a large chapter in this book. Spend your money elsewhere
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Summary: Good, but more books needed
Review: This book is very helpful to anyone who understands COM but are confused by the vast array of new services offered by COM+. This is the first book they should read. However, this book is (intentionally) very incomplete, lacking any actual programming how-to. I think 2 more books are needed for a healthy understanding of COM+. The next book should be an easy Visual Basic how-to guide, and the book after that should be a more hard core VC++ guide/reference book.
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Summary: Good overview for COM+
Review: This book is very well written and is easy to understand (even for a non-technical person). The author have explained the essential principles and concepts about COM+. If you want to learn and understand COM+, this book is your best choice. I suggest that the reader should read some other books or papers about COM and MTS before reading this book. The style of writing is very graceful, so it is hard for me to translate it into Chinese.
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