Professional DCOM Application Development

by Jonathan Pinnock

Professional DCOM Application Development is for experienced C++ programmers who have heard that Microsoft may be getting there at last, and want to get up to speed. It is for people in a hurry, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861001312
• ISBN13: 9781861001313
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Should really be called "Win32 Enterprise Primer"

The title of this book is deceiving. Writing enterprise software for Win32 involves a lot of COM based technology. This book is an excellent introduction for all these technologies provided that the person already has some fundamental knowledge of basic COM (Hence the "Professional" in the title). I have not seen a better book out there that both addresses the technologies AND has working samples of those technologies. Most COM/DCOM/COM+ books out there today start with rehashes of Dale Rogerson's Inside COM book... I am tired of seeing all the books out there that has the exact same explanation of connection points, the exact explanation of IUnknown, and basically the exact same 3 introductory chapters!. Learning COM is a two-pronged process. First, you must be able to get comfortable with the technology (hence, Rogerson's book), then you have to learn the services built around the technology (This book does that!). I can see why this book got such poor reviews, because those people reading the book were not ready for the onslaught of information in this book (believe me, there's more useful information in these 400+ pages than there is in most 600-1000+ page COMeverything books).

Interesting book

This book is a "professional" Dcom book and it could be very difficult for COM beginners. The book touched many advanced features with practical examples that can not be found in other COM/DCOM books. One must have at least intermediate level knowledge before opening this book. That is why I only read the book after I bought the book one year later. Many topics it introduced can be applied to industry directly. However, I sometimes found myself could not make some components right by following author's instructions, although the examples from the wrox download site work just fine.

Broad coverage, good introduction

The book provides very good introduction to MTS, MSMQ, MMC, NT Security and Monitoring. The author also gave some valuable ideas/implementations of MBV (Marshal By Value) which is very pratical for those DCOM people with "limited bandwidth". The code fragment are instructive and good enough to get you started to customize your own project or at least to give you the idea where to start. The server parts were unanimously coded in Visual C++ with ATL, most of client parts were coded in Visual Basic, though it is not my favorite language, the author does have insight on this useage. (It is simply simpler than MFC to work with GUI development) I personaly would not count on something (or some features) which are still in Beta (NT5.0) and may not even show up when released and I would like to let Microsoft to handle the hard part such as MSDTC. With the ATL3.0, some implementations might be changed a bit, but that should be very trivial. Overall, to C++ programmer working with COM/DCOM, this is a good book to hold with.