This reference speaks to the huge base of Visual Basic developers who, until now, could only learn about COM by reading books written for C++ programmers. Now they can get up to speed quickly and participate in Microsoft's strategy for distributed computing. The Foreword is by Don Box, the industry guru for COM technology.
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Microsoft's DCOM is the key technology for enterprise development for the Windows platform. Written for the working Visual Basic developer or project manager, Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 introduces the basics of DCOM objects in a clear style. All examples are written in Visual Basic, and the reader learns about new Microsoft BackOffice technologies such as Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) (for transaction processing) and Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) (for message queuing). If your shop uses Microsoft tools, Visual Basic 6 stands ready to write today's scalable distributed applications using DCOM. This well-organized text shows you how DCOM works and what advantages it offers for today's enterprise developer using Visual Basic 6. --Richard Dragan
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Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. For the last five years, Ted has worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring SharePoint training materials for early adopters. Ted started working with SharePoint 2010 in August of 2008, and since that time, has led a series of training classes in which he has already taught hundreds of professional developers how to get started building custom business solutions using the SharePoint 2010 platform.
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Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. For the last five years Ted has worked with Microsoft's Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring SharePoint training material for early adopters. Ted started working with SharePoint 2010 in August of 2008 and since that time has led a series of training classes in which he has already taught hundreds of professional developers how to get started building custom business solutions using the SharePoint 2010 platform.
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This review is from: Programming Distributed Applications with Com and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Programming/Visual Basic) (Paperback)
After reading all those glowing reviews I bought this book. What I found is: 1. No sample code. 2. The theories and ideas are floating all over without providing an understanding what it is all about. 3. The first five chapters you can skip. I guess that some VB programmers want to prove that they are not "naive VB programmers".
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I browsed through the reviews couple of days ago and today again. I was unpleasently suprised that some of the bad reviews disapeared and were replaced with good reviews. Is this a new policy of Amazon.com to entice potential customers to buy ths book? I was ready to buy this book, but I won't buy it now!
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This book has left me more confused than when I started,
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This review is from: Programming Distributed Applications with Com and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Programming/Visual Basic) (Paperback)
According to the title, this book focuses on COM in Visual Basic, but the author spends many pages using Java to illustrate his points. I am a learn-by-example programmer, and this book is seriously lacking in examples. He refers to the "naieve VB programmer" who understands little about the interface between the COM object and Windows. Well, I'm proud to say that I am one of those "naieve VB programmers" who cares little about the behind-the-scenes operations, and just wants to know "How do I do X ?" I think I'm going to return this book and pick up "Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual Basic 6.0" by Jim Maloney. This is the second time I've been let down by Microsoft Press.
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This chapter briefly describes what the Component Object Model (COM) is, where COM came from, and why you need to understand this technology to work in a distributed Windows NT environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
doomed flag, universal marshaler, transaction support attribute, class factory object, context wrapper, creatable class, string parsing technique, persistable classes, binary reuse, happy flag, wizard bar, parameterized information, public class module, threading mode, data access code, launching user, transactional queue, activation request, stateless programming, outbound interface, resource dispenser, first method call, automation clients, response queue, root object Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
End Sub, Private Sub, Microsoft Transaction Server, Project Properties, Set Dog, Quantity As Long, Customer As String, Microsoft Windows, Product As String, Sub Main, Driver Manager, Microsoft Message Queue, Service Control Manager, Public Sub, Object Browser, Programming Distributed Applications, Apartment Threaded, Internet Information Server, Unattended Execution, Begin Transaction, Distributed Transaction Coordinator, Packages Installed, Programming Transactions, Remote Server Files, Rolls As Integer New!
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This chapter briefly describes what the Component Object Model (COM) is, where COM came from, and why you need to understand this technology to work in a distributed Windows NT environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
doomed flag, universal marshaler, transaction support attribute, class factory object, context wrapper, creatable class, string parsing technique, persistable classes, binary reuse, happy flag, wizard bar, parameterized information, public class module, threading mode, data access code, launching user, transactional queue, activation request, stateless programming, outbound interface, resource dispenser, first method call, automation clients, response queue, root object Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
End Sub, Private Sub, Microsoft Transaction Server, Project Properties, Set Dog, Quantity As Long, Customer As String, Microsoft Windows, Product As String, Sub Main, Driver Manager, Microsoft Message Queue, Service Control Manager, Public Sub, Object Browser, Programming Distributed Applications, Apartment Threaded, Internet Information Server, Unattended Execution, Begin Transaction, Distributed Transaction Coordinator, Packages Installed, Programming Transactions, Remote Server Files, Rolls As Integer New!
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books:
- Inside Ole (Microsoft Programming Series) by Kraig Brockschmidt in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Principles of Transaction Processing for the Systems Professional (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Philip A. Bernstein in Front Matter, and page 85
- Design Patterns by Erich Gamma in Front Matter
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma in Front Matter
- Advanced Windows by Jeffrey Richter in Front Matter
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