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The introduction of the Microsoft® .NET framework not only brings developers a powerful, cohesive toolset for the development of new Windows and Web applications -- it also replaces COM as the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. Components are the fundamental building blocks of .NET applications; they can both simplify and add flexibility to complex applications. Applied properly, component-oriented programming enable reuse, allow for long-term maintenance, application extensibility and scalability. Programming .NET Components offers a complete introduction to the new Microsoft .NET component model, focusing on the aspects of .NET that make it ideal for building reusable, maintainable, and robust components. Author Juval Löwy, a noted authority on component-oriented programming, teaches the intricacies of .NET component programming and the related system issues to application developers, along with relevant design guidelines, tips, best practices, and known pitfalls. The book is packed with helpful original utilities aimed at simplifying the programming model and increasing the developer productivity.

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Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, a .Net-focused consulting and training company.

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (April 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596003471
ISBN-13: 978-0596003470
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best advanced C# book I have seen, July 6, 2003

By	ueberhund "ueberhund" (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)

This review is from: Programming .NET Components (Paperback)

While the book is supposed to be centered on ".NET" components, it's really more about C# than anything else. After the obligatory introduction to .NET, JIT, MSIL, and all the other .NET acronyms, the book gets down to business. In fact, this book really begins where a lot of other C# books tend to end: interfaces and inheritance. There is then discussion on version control, including using multiple versions of an assembly in the GAC. While I have seen this type of discussion in other .NET books, I haven't seen it discussed in the depth that L�wy's book does it.

I think the thing I most enjoyed about this book was the chapter on Remoting. Again, I have seen discussions on Remoting in other books (including Microsoft's own MSDN documentation), but no where have I seen as thorough a discussion with as many useful examples as in this book.

Other topics covered in this book include multithreading, asynchronous calls, serialization (including various types of serialization formatters), interception, and security. This book is not for the beginning .NET programmer. If you're looking for a good introductory C# book, pick up a copy of Jesse Liberty's book. If you're looking for a intermediate to advanced text, then this is one of the very best I have seen. More of the "hard" stuff to do in .NET is covered in this book than in any other place I have seen. I can honestly say that this is the best advanced C# book I have ever seen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Take the next step, August 7, 2004

By	dannomite "Dan Maltes" (Cornwall, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming .NET Components (Paperback)

This book is about half the size of many of my other .NET programming books, and yet I've used about twice as many concepts from it than the bigger books. Computer books are just bloated today because publishers know we knowledge hungry programmers are drawn to the supersized books. Well, this book breaks the mold. It is clear, concise, potent and modestly sized. For example, chapter 11 on context and interception and the logging component example is awesome. If you want to take the next step as a .NET programmer, read this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on .NET development, one of the best, December 3, 2003

By	Christopher Brandsma "Chris Brandsma" (Boise, ID United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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When I was reading the first three chapters of this book I could have sworn that it was miss-titled; it should have been called Component Oriented Programming in .NET. Just so we get this straight, this is not a book about the wonderful components in the .NET Framework that Microsoft has provided -- this is a book about CREATING components in the .NET Framework.

The next item that needs to be clarified: What is a component? If you are from the Delphi/VCL world, a component is a non-visual object that can be manipulated in design-time with the mouse and the property browser, while usually being dragged onto a form (TTimer, TDatabase, TSession, TTable, etc). But in this book a component is a class -- the simpler the class, the better. No inheritance unless absolutely necessary, no class hierarchies, but interfaces are cool.

Now, once you get beyond the philosophy lessons of the first three chapters, you are left with one outstanding book on practical .NET development. The chapter on Events is worth the price of admission alone. The chapter on Versioning is excellent as well, but the rest of the sections are every bit as good.

Many of the topics covered in the book are not things you will find in the help files, or if they are, they are too scattered to be useful. What is covered: a large number of best practices, defensive coding techniques (again the chapter on Events is gold), and general you-really-need-to-know-this topics.

One note, some of the topics covered are very large (Remoting and Security are two examples), and if you are interested in those topics, there are other books that deal with them individually.

Summary: if you are into creating top-quality .NET software you should own this book.

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