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Professional DCOM Programming [Paperback]

Richard Grimes (Author), Dr Richard Grimes (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997

Guide to creating practical applications with Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model. (DCOM) For Win32 programmers taking up the challenge of building distributed applications using the new component object model.

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Professional DCOM Programming is a dense, comprehensive tome that covers everything an experienced C++ programmer could want to know about DCOM, Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model. Author Richard Grimes covers DCOM's origins, differences from COM, and techniques for writing both DCOM clients and servers. What the book sometimes lacks in readability it makes up in thoroughness: nothing is left out, from security to multithreading, and the level of detail reached within each section is remarkable.

Product Details

Paperback: 565 pages
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (January 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 186100060X
ISBN-13: 978-1861000606
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,706,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars not Professional, April 10, 2000

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The book's title is totaly wrong, it should be like DCOM Programming in VC++ with ATL, because that's the only area it focus to, it's good on that though it lacks a lot for being professional, discusess very little DCOM itself.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Useless, December 28, 1999

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This book misrepresents itself. It is anything but "Professional DCOM Programming". There is little DCOM, almost no coding outside the spoon-feeding wizards of ATL, and no examination of any of the challenging areas of COM/DCOM.

The book does singularly impress, however, by taking line honours in a very competitive field: by providing the worst explanation of NT security I have ever read.

It is educationally poor, technically unimpressive (despite Dr Grimes attempts to convince us of his expertise with a packet sniffer and a hex editor), and smacks of a quick grab at what at the time was an under-supplied market.

If you want to be expert in any of the fields that this book purports to clarify, I suggest you consult the experts.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A very confusing book., February 24, 2000

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This book is very confusing. A lot of high level words without any clue as to what do they mean. COM features are explained extremely poor.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent fuel for a camp fire
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5.0 out of 5 stars Professional DCOM programming
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5.0 out of 5 stars This best book on DCOM
This coming from an author of 2 books on the subject. It is a difficult read, but the content is by far the most accurate and complete.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Covers what DCOM is about
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Published on January 16, 2000 by An ATL Developer

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book for experienced developers
This is a good book for experienced developers but for beginners it is not, as the flow is difficult to understand. But examples are very practical.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for COM/DCOM
This is a great book for COM/DCOM. After reading this book I get a very clear understanding of COM and DCOM.

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1.0 out of 5 stars VERY EASY !
This book is very easy. I found no new ideas nor techniques. I'm surprised giving the title "Professional" to this book. Read more

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2.0 out of 5 stars But what about DCOM?
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a must have book for COM developers
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Book For Real World Professionals
Great coverage of DCOM. In-depth explaination; Hands-on experience; Complete topics(Maybe a little more on aggregation and containment). What else do you expect?!

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