Professional DCOM Programming

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?!

Dr. Richard Grimes does an excellent job of covering the world of DCOM - automation, security, threading models, NT services as COM servers, MTS, debugging DCOM servers. Everything I need to know about the ins and outs of DCOM is in this book and it is covered in a professional, thorough manner.Note that Dr. Grimes does not cover the tools and techniques for writing DCOM servers (ATL, MFC, VC++), but it is as well that he shouldn't have - that would be distracting and draw focus away from the more challenging tasks addressed by Dr. Grimes. Tools and techniques should be covered separately (as well they are).In addition to all of the DCOM architecture, design and implementation gems covered, I use this book exclusively as my "other-than-Microsoft" reference to MTS. In one chapter Dr. Grimes performs a superior effort in coverage of MTS than is done in SAMS' Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 (Roger Jennings' Database Workshop), a book entirely devoted to MTS.I look forward to other such efforts of Dr. Grimes being published.

Whenever an author cuts to the chase in 2 chapters, he's done busy developers a favor! I am usually swamped at work, and need a book that can get me started quickly. I have (once again) used one of Dr. Grimes' books to get my compiler going in order to solve a remotable distributed systems problem. He DOES cover all the bases. WARNING: You had better read Dale Rogerson's book (Inside COM) first. You will need the detailed background in COM to get the most out of a more advanced treatise lik this.

Learning about DCOM is not easy. Yet, the book makes it very likely that almost any reader with some VC++ background can do it. The entire book, starting from first few "backgrounder" chapters and ending with chapters about NT Services, Multithreading, Microsoft Transaction Server, as well as Appendix, is very useful from both theoretical and practical points of view. Dr. Richard Grimes made sure that his detailed explanation of issues is complemented by good code examples. Besides DCOM-specific things, the author explains (not fully covers, though!) many general topics like COM itself, ATL, and COM Threading Models, which might be helpful for readers without solid background in those areas. If you are going to work on design and/or implementation of DCOM-based systems I cannot suggest any better book to read - Professional DCOM Programming really stands out!

I'm using this book to teach myself DCOM, and was very glad I bought from Wrox Press rather than Microsoft Press. The book isn't a substitute for a reference volume, but all the concepts are covered in sufficient (though not excessive) detail. Moreover, there is a refreshing absence of Microspeak. Grimes calls a bug a bug and refrains from describing anything as "cool.". Recommended.