Inside COM+: Base Services [With CDROM]

by Guy Eddon and Henry Eddon

An in-depth architectural overview of COM+ component technologies for enterprise developers, this book offers a detailed look by providing implementation details and sample code. Content includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735607281
• ISBN13: 9780735607286
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 660 Pages
• Weight: 3.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best way to learn COM/COM+

As people have stated below, this is an updated "Inside DCOM" book. Why are they complaining though? It states that on the back cover!! It's true, this book does not go into the nitty gritty of anything specific to COM+. But if you want to know the "Base"-ics then get this book. After looking through many many COM+ books this is easily the winner. No BS. But you need to be a C++ programmer to understand a good deal of it.

20th Century Award Winner

This book presents the complexities of COM(+) with exceptional clarity. This book deals with COM deepest internals and key concepts are presented in a clear and understandable way. This is "The Book" about COM(+) and I was not suprised that it was the top choice of the: http://www.aw.com/cseng/20thcentbookwinners.shtml

The best book about the topic

I have a lot of books about COM and ActiveX, including "Essential COM", "Inside COM", "ATL internals", "Professional ATL Programming", "Inside OLE", "Essential COM and ActiveX". This is by far the best. It has explained the concept of COM very clearly, with very good examples. As someone say it has many topics similar to the author's "Inside Distributed COM", I think it is because COM+ is based on DCOM concept and Microsoft often change the words.

Good book gets a bad review

Five months ago I read another book by the same authors: Programming Components with MS Visual Basic and I was very impressed. I was able to understand how to program COM from VB! Recently, I read Inside COM+ Base Services. It took me over five weeks to digest it, but then I understood its value. I was suprised to find a reviewer with such strong negative feeling about the authors of these books. Maybe he should not treat this book as a novel but spend some real time trying to understand it.

Very thorough

I have read nearly all the COM books and this one really explains some of the basic infastructure well. The book does, however, focus more on COM/DCOM facilities than MTS/MSMQ type services.