Mastering Com and COM+

After spending over $100.00 on other COM+ books (no need to mention names here) I have finally found a book with the right balance of code and information. I can now claim to know COM+ and be able to prove it. Thank you for not ripping me off TB.

This book is great for VB COM/COM+ developer but not VC++ developer. The bright side of this book is that is explains from COM/DCOM to COM+ in both VB and VC++. It provides examples for some hard chewing stuff and it explains the COM+ services such as CRM, Roles Based Security, Queue Component and etc...But the dark side is that those tips provided in this book is not accurate, which decrease a star from perfect. For example, the author recommended to use CreateInstance for object creation. This is fine with MTS but not COM+. In COM+, there are no separate runtime as in COM/MTS environment. Instead of the CreateInstance (which is MTS way of implementation) we should use the New operator to create object (which is the COM+ way of implementation).But overall, this is a great book to grab the COM+ in action with VB and VC++.TQ:-)

As a COM developer I enjoyed the style and explanation of the topics. This is by far the best COM+ tutorial I have read. The mix of VB and C++ was very interesting. As a VB developer I enjoyed the VC++ examples as well. Great job. Note: Understanding COM+ is also a good high-level book that you should read before jumping into this book if you are new to COM+.

If you want to learn COM and understand COM+ simply read this book. I am not a VC++ developer but got as much value from reading the VC++ chapters as I did from the VB chapters. This book made me smarter :)

After buying a couple of books on COM+ (or at least had COM+ in the title), I either returned them or did not learn anything. This book offered me an excellent hands on explanation of COM+ features. I really enjoyed it and recommend it. I also got the chance to learn some VB along the way and understanding how implementation is different between VB and VC++. I still won't use VB however.