C# COM+ Programming (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Derek Beyer (Author)

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Publication Date: October 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0764548352 | ISBN-13: 978-0764548352

C# COM+ Programming is a must-have for developers already working with COM+ who are ready to transition to the .NET Platform. You will be able to take your existing skills as a COM+ component programmer into the .NET Framework quickly and easily.

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C# COM+ Programming Your Complete Guide to COM+ Services in the .NET Framework Whether you want to integrate existing COM+ services into the .NET Framework or create all-new .NET COM+ services using C#, this unique guide shows you the way. With lucid explanations and a generous helping of sample components and source code, COM+ expert Derek Beyer shows you step by step how to consume COM components from .NET, consume .NET components from COM, and create .NETCOM+ components for transactions, security, events, object pooling, queuing, and remoting. Your Road Map to COM+ and .NET Integration
* Understand the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime
* Convert COM type libraries into .NET namespaces
* Transform .NET assemblies into COM type libraries
* Harness JIT activation, synchronization, and AutoComplete in a transaction component
* Create a role-based security component
* Write a loosely coupled events component and create subscriptions with COM+ Explorer
* Learn the ins and outs of object pooling, from attributes to scalability
* Get the scoop on MSMQ, exceptions, error handling, and other queuing issues
* Use SOAP, channels, formatters, proxies, and other tools to create remoting serviced components
Source Code on CD-ROM Complete examples for developing COM+ components in C# including:
* Queued component
* Remote component
* Pooled component
* Event-driven component
* Role-based security component, and
* C# transactional component and client application
System Requirements: PC running Windows. See the "What's on the CD-ROM" Appendix for further requirements and details. www.mandtbooks.com

About the Author

Derek Beyer, MCP+I, specializes in programming distributed applications using Visual Basic, C++, and, most recently, C# and .NET. Currently the enterprise architect for a large Midwestern retailer in the U.S., he has worked on a wide variety of projects, including a top-ten B2C Web site, an ERP Web integration, and a distributed application that integrates legacy systems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 322 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764548352
• ISBN-13: 978-0764548352
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,091,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Shallow..., November 30, 2002

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Larry Marvin Wall (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: C# COM+ Programming (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

I honestly don't like writing bad reviews but I feel compelled to save people money when I can. Unless you are looking for a manager's overview of COM+ programming don't buy this book. Coverage of COM+ itself is very light. The author appears to assume that the reader has picked that up someplace else... probably by writing COM+ components in VB 6. There are no in-depth discussions of the technology or even best practices. The jist of this book is that now you use attributes to COM+ enable your code written in C#. The coverage of what attributes are available to you and within those attributes what options are supported and what they mean is likewise incomplete and lacking in depth. However, where I really lost respect for this book was when I looked in the registry to see what was going on from a COM perspective for the classes that I had built based on the code fragments in the text. What a mess. Stale registry entries for previous builds of my components were everywhere. It took me an hour to get the mess cleaned up and several more to piece together what was going on and realize that there are a lot of COM specific attributes never mentioned in this book that you need to known about in order to build a COM+ component _correctly_ using C#. And as I have discovered that is the crux of the situation. To do COM+ using C# you need to be _very_ familiar with COM-CLR interop. Basically you need _much_ more information than this book provides.

In summary I believe that reading this book will serve only to make one `dangerous' not proficient in COM+ development using C#.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete, May 31, 2002

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Stenberg, Jan Olof "jan_stenberg" (Umeå, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: C# COM+ Programming (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Superficial information, short and incomplete code examples.
I had a basic understanding of COM+, transactions, MSMQ, etc. and that has not increased after reading this book.
If you know COM+ you don't need this book, if you don't this book will not help you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Keep looking..., November 13, 2002

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This review is from: C# COM+ Programming (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

This book is poorly organized and lacks focus. The topics' coverage is shallow. Even with the lightweight content, it should be titled or described as "How to Transition COM+ programming with VB to C#".