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Understanding and Programming COM+: A Practical Guide to Windows 2000 DNA
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Author: Robert J. Oberg
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130231142
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (14 December, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 63,806
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
I would sell my soul for this book.
For the professional programmer only: Clear and concise step-through using Visual C++. *.dsw files are there for the Visual C++ programmer--Click on the .dsw and straight away it launches Visual C++ 6.0. (I have all the ptches as of 2002.10.10.)Again, step-by-step instructions, useless for a beginner; Gold for the pro, who needs both excellent guidance and the code on CD. I didn't run the install program. I copied the CD to disk, instead. Then I looked inside the chapter directories, and clicked on *.dsw.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good Windows DNA Description
This book gave me an excellent understanding of COM+ and the Windows DNA. It is definitely geared more towards C++ programmers than it is towards VB programmers, however, there is still a lot of good information for any developer trying to learn COM+. I read most of it (even the C++ parts), but, coming from a VB environment, some of it got tough to follow. After reading this book, I had a solid foundation, but I definitely needed to pick up a book that was geared more towards VB programmers to get more of a by example experience. The book I picked up Scot Hillier's book COM+ Programming with Visual Basic (also got Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example by Peishu Li). I am about a third of the way through it (I'll write a review on it when I get done with it), and it has been rock solid so far. In a nutshell, this is a good book to understand the architecture and concepts behind COM+ and the Windows DNA, but you may need to supplement it with another book that is more example driven to hammer home the concepts.
Rating: 2 out of 5
This book needs revision
Yuck!I'm an experienced VC++, VB, COM, and MTS programmer for Window NT. I bought this book to help bring me up to speed with the changes for Windows 2000, specifically COM+ transactional services (the new MTS). First of all, the first 300 pages have little to do with COM+. It's a review of other programming issues, which belong in a different book. It's pure fluff and a waste of paper. Second, its treatment of transactions is very lacking. For example, it doesn't even discuss the importance of stateless development and that's very important to understand. Don't buy this book. Get "Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example" by Peishu Li or "Programming Distributed Applications with COM+..." by Ted Pattison or the golden oldie "Distributed COM..." by Jim Maloney (for NT).
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