Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9781572313491
ISBN: 1572313498
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: 1997-02
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Sales Rank: 78058
Studio: Microsoft Press
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Rating:  - The best COM introduction book for C++ programmers
This book is probably the best COM introduction book for C++ programmers. It walks you through the basics such as the IUnknown and the IDispatch interfaces, the different types of COM servers and the threading models. Everything is explained in clear writing style.
Rating: - An excellent book on COM
This is much more than a COM book. The book spends a lot of time in the first half talking about the more general concept of interfaces, which is more of a software design topic. Then he shows how to implement those interfaces using C++ abstract classes and gives a very good discussion of inheritence, polymorphism, and virtual function tables. Everything is done in pure C++ so you can see what is going on. No wizards or macros to hide the details. The diagrams were very helpful.
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Rating: - Technical, clear and succinct
I have been using COM for a while, then finally decided to dig further into its design paradigm and some implementation details. This book assumes knowledge of C++ and a lot of understanding of polymorphism. If you don't understand polymorphism, then it will be very hard to understand this book - but if you do, you will really enjoy reading it.
This is one of the best technical books I have ever read - not just on COM. It does NOT beat around the bush. This is one of those books that ... Read More
Rating: - Great book uses simple C++ coding style for presenting COM
This is an excellent COM starting book. The author progressively builds knowledge and uses a C++ style that does not require you to memorize by heart the function, macro or template presented in page X or in windows.h. This simple, no distractions approach facilitates focus.
I praise the COM reading list posted by another reviewer ("A reader"), the only book I would add to that list is "Inside Distributed COM" as this book covers the network aspects of COM like no other.
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Rating: - The best way to *really* understand the fundamentals of COM
This book begins by assuming the reader knows little more than basic C++. In the second chapter it introduces some simple C++ classes about which the reader will think to herself, "okay, this is simple". From there it builds: adding incremental changes to the original C++ code, gradually making it more useful, explaining each change as it goes. By the end of the book, the original example has grown up into a full fledged COM component, written completely from scratch. No wizards, no templates. At this ... Read More
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