Understanding COM+

by David S. Platt

Understanding COM+ provides an engaging, comprehensive overview of the COM+ architecture and key COM+ features. It shows how COM+ can streamline application development to help you get enterprise... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735606668
• ISBN13: 9780735606661
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Book

Very good first Book on COM+. Clears up a lot of misconceptions. However I am looking forward to "Essential COM+" or "Inside COM+".

A good overview of COM+, and cheap, too!

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.

Good overview for COM+

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.

Excellent high-level overview of COM+

Very similiar in scope and tone to David Chappell's classic "Understanding ActiveX and Ole" Explains the evolution of COM+ from COM/DCOM plus MTS and MSMQ, finally integrated into the operating system (Windows 2000).It is an entertaining, easy to read book, that even your manager should be able to understand. Its almost as good as listening to a Don Box lecture! Highly recommended!

great little book!

This book presents the new features of COM+ in an extremely intelligent and sometimes very humorous way. Its focus is definitely not on the mechanics of the new components, but rather on their high-level purpose along with design and architectural issues. This allows the reader to gain perspective rapidly as the messy details are left to the Windows 2000 documentation.Bits of brillient philosophical insight are included. Read the epilogue and you can justify your comfy six-figure salary.