Rating:  - Comprehensive interoperability book
Often finding an appropriate and effective bridge to .NET is a time consuming and problematic task, we had to do a lot of research and benchmarking to find an optimal solution. Having this book by Adam Nathan will save time and effort on building these bridges.
The material in the book is intended for use by experienced professional developers, it's certainly not an entry level tutorial, but the author's style, detailed description supported by examples makes it easy to read and follow. A short introduction to .NET and managed code concepts is provided in the first section of the book. I discovered, however, that this book may be helpful to the people who have no previous COM knowledge, due to the very descriptive and illustrative style.
The author clearly has an extensive experience of COM and a good knowledge of Microsoft .NET. That's why the material is not just an abstract presentation, but a systematically organized guide, focused on potential problems and difficulties a developer may face. However, it is still only focused on COM/.NET interoperability, most probably I would need another book about Java, CORBA working with .NET. The book, as already mentioned, is not an introductory or general conceptual tutorial on programming or architecture, but a very detailed and comprehensive interoperability reference, and it is definitely worth its price. Also the length of the book, about 1600 pages is well justified. Another positive side of the book is that examples are written in VB, C# and managed C++.
Rating:  - The cards were stacked against it. It came out good.
The book is 1608 pages - 50% more than a James Michner book. It's published by Sam's. What more could it have against it?
Yet it's a good book. If you're talking between .Net and COM it's got the information you need. Any chapter you open it to has good, readable information when you feel like browsing. It lies flat on a table when opened. What more could you ask for in a book?
Definitely worth the price.
Rating:  - This book is not for c++ developers
If you want to write in c# this book is for you. The author is very verbose.
Rating: - Great .Net Inteop Guide
This is a great book that covers .Net Interop. It covers Interop more in debth compared to other books that I have read. All the ideas covered apply to Visual Studio 2002 and as well as Visual Studio 2003. The book is well layed out and information is easy to find.
Rating: - Can't believe it!
I can't believe it! It is awsome book which I haven't seen any of COM book better than this before. I am not a professional programmer but after reading this book, I feel so good about my knowledge in windows programming and specially in the NET FRAME WORK. I bought a lots of Dot net books and still confusing about this new technology. But the ".NET and COM" is totally different. It clearly explains everything and giving the reader a really good concept. Eventhough, I haven't finished the book yet, but I can give the author 5 stars rate. Luckily, I bought this book with a cheap price and I 've got a huge information about COM and NET. I hope my future will get better cause of those information. Buy this book and buy "Applied the Net frame work" of Jeffrey Richter, you will not regret for what you do.
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