The Essence of Com: A Programmer's Workbook [With CDROM]

I have no problem on purchasing this book when I needed four years ago... But who care COM now? I ready once and forgot forever... to ease my life.

Aren't you fed up with 800-1000 pages books? This book explains more in less words and this is what personally I'm looking for; I have too many huge, thick books on my "to be read" list and I'm scared and stressed when I see them; I use this book as a COM refresher when I feel I loose the contact with the basics; I tried, for instance, to read an excellent book about COM+ (Transactional COM+, Tim Ewald), but I needed a COM threading refresher before tackling COM+ concepts. And I didn't need more than 2 hours to put order in things...

I've graduated about 9 years ago. While in college I was programming on PC using assembly language, C, Pascal on DOS. When I worked I move on to Unix , programming and doing computer animation. After years on Unix, I feel that programming on PC is somewhat alien. So many has changed and a lot has to be re-learned and unlearned. "The Essence of COM" has filled in the gap, good book for anyone who needs to catch-up with the technology quickly. The reason it does not get a 5 star is that at times the sentences need to be edited by an english teacher (of course he/she must understand COM first).