Inside Distributed COM [With *]

by Guy Eddon and Henry Eddon

With Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), developers can create powerful new multitier business solutions and distributed applications. Inside Distributed COM presents the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157231849X
• ISBN13: 9781572318496
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Second Book

great book for those that already know the workings of com/dcom, but want a better understanding of how things work under the hood (and way under the hood). this book is not VC++ 6.0 or ATL3.0 oriented - but you'll need to be pretty proficient in both or this is not your best use of funds. if you want the rest of the story behind marshalling, esp custom, std, and type lib, then is the best book i have found. certainly not a replacement for grimes - but certainly a notch or two above many of the WROX/Grimes products in both completeness and correctness.

The best book on COM internals.

This is a book for developers that want to understand the deep internals of COM. Since most of COM are specifications, in order to use COM correctly you needs to understand its internals. This book is rated "The Best Computer Book of the 20th Century".

The Best Computer Book of the 20th Century

This book provides the reader with the fundamentals of COM andthe understanding of the theory behind COM. This book received the toprating as the best computer book of the 20th century. END

I am impressed!

Finally a book that covers REAL COM. This book doesn't show a high level picture or just basic COM stuff. It explores what is really involved in building programs from components. It doesn't hide the fact that COM is complicated. It explains what we need to know to use it. Complex issues are presented with clarity. I am suprised that I did not hear about this book sooner.

MS Press continues to have the best books on MS Software

This is the best book on the subject I have read yet. It is not for the beginner and is pitched at explaining the underlying principles--which it does remarkably well. The discussion of the DCOM/RPC network protocol is great as is the chapters on threading and apartment models. As a whole this book is much better than the WROX books, in my opinion. Plus it doesn't suffer from the problems that press has with breaking code examples into 3-line snippets that obscure the whole picture.