Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781861000118
ISBN: 1861000111
Label: Wrox Press
Manufacturer: Wrox Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 491
Publication Date: 1998-01
Publisher: Wrox Press
Sales Rank: 945564
Studio: Wrox Press
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Rating:  - Old, but still a good introduction
I picked this up because there isn't any good ATL/COM introduction on the internet. Some of the design principals are antiquated, but it helped my get up to speed in a short amount of time.
Rating:  - Descent but outdated
I recently ordered this book, and I am currently on chapter 7. If you are looking into ordering this book make sure that you are fairly experienced in c++, and confident with your skills. Also this book is out of date sometimes I ran into trouble because the examples were based on vc++ 5, and i'm using vc++6 and/or vs.net so it would send me lookin on how to implement the examples on modern IDEs. So I would definately recommend ordering Beginning ATL 3 COM Programming, instead of this one.
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Rating:  - I am sure there are better.
Chapter 2 was just way too intense. It threw way too much at you, way too fast. I was left feeling overwhelmed, and frustrated. After reading chaps. 2 and 3 four times, I was able to proceed, but chapter 7 proved a disappointment when the example wouldn't work. I even downloaded the code off the site, and checked the errata online, to no avail. When the samples don't even work...well that's never happened to me before. It just didn't work.
I was sticking with the book, because although ... Read More
Rating:  - How could anyone rate this book poorly?
This book was one of the best that I have read on a particulartopic...
The authors provide a lot of instruction about how to readthe book, recommending, for example, that you read through the chapter before actually attempting the examples. This is, of course, a standard recommendation (which in my experience many readers of technical material do not follow). Following this advice, I found that the authors were correct, and the material was far more understandable.
I am NOT a proficient ... Read More
Rating: - not for beginners
This book gives a serious coverage of ATL COM that will repay readers' efforts. It's far from easy, and the organization could be improved in places. For example, I'm one of those people who absolutely has to know what's going on "under the hood", but the implementation details come a little early (in Chapter 1). Had to experiment with the order of interface entries in the idl file and think a lot about vtables, interface pointer casting, multiple inheritance, and so on before I began to understand what ... Read More
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