Rating:  - Item delivered on time in a very good condition
Item delivered on time in a very good condition
Rating: - Nice update to a solid work
I liked the original and this a good update that covers the migration requirements and new language features. This book will walk you through everything you need to know to build a well designed .NET component with C#. Visual Basic isn't covered. There is a little reference to that in the beginning which is disparaging to VB.NET. But that's ok. I'm sure that anyone doing this type of work in VB will get a lot from this book and can do the language translation.
Rating:  - Excellent best practices reference!
Programming .NET Components
Author: Juval Lowy
Published by O'Reilly Press
ISBN: 0-596-00347-1
Reviewed by Andre Beier, HuNTUG Member
A lot of computer books nowadays teach you how to program, but they hardly ever give an explanation why things should be done in a certain way. This book starts right at the point where other books usually end.
It has in-depth chapters about Interfaces, Lifecycle Management, Version Control, Asynchronous Calls, Multithreading, and many other commonly used .NET technologies. The author has done a really good job explaining even some of the most advanced .NET features.
I would give this book 4.5 (out of 5) stars. My only real criticism is that some concrete programming examples would have made it easier to understand some of the more complex parts of the book. Altogether you can say that this book is an excellent reference of best practices for the advanced programmer. I definitely would not recommend this book for .NET beginners. However, if you ever got frustrated with books that were only scratching the surface, this book is for you. It might be especially useful for former COM programmers since the author takes the time to point out the differences between COM and .NET.
Rating: - The Book for .NET Component Design...
I have the two "big book" on Interoperability by Nathan and Troelsen but when I sat down with them ready to write some .NET component with the desire to make them compatible with COM, I was awash in pages and pages of details!
Those two book are great to cover very deep "gotchas" but I wanted a simple guide to .NET component development.
I read all the reviews here and ran out to 3 bookstores looking for the book - I was so happy when I had it in my hand at the 3rd store!
Everything said here about this book is true - as proof, I'm writing a book review here on Amazon - something I hardly ever do!
If you want to build .NET components, BUY the book!
Rating: - A real gem of a book
After a very long time I have come across a book that is really fabulous. Most of the programming books are too bulky and they waste all the pages in explaining only the documentation rather than the architecture. Most of this documentaion can be obtained on the web. This book explains the principles and the architecture behind all the commonly used .net concepts. I highly recommend this book. However, do not buy this book if you are planning to learn .net and have never used it before. This book caters to programmers who have had at least some programming experience in .net previously.
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