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Title: Building N-Tier Applications with COM and Visual Basic(r) 6.0 by Ash Rofail, Tony Martin ISBN: 0-471-29549-3 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 25 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: good info; very wordy; errors in eg.
Comment: The only reason that I gave this book a 3 stars is because of contents. It covers all the basic parts of building an n-tier application with com, such as MTS, MSMQ, and SQL Server. In terms of how well the book is written, I am giving it a 1.5 stars.
For people who are experienced in programming (not necessarily VB or COM), I suggest you read on.
The thing that I don't like about this book is that it goes on and on explaining something that could be represented by one or two sentences instead of a whole paragraph. LOTS of paragraphs can be totally omitted without lossing contents or flow.
For example, "But don't get too worked up about the term tier. Adding tiers does not necessarily mean another server is required for your application. Tiers can be logical as well as physical. Putting another tier in the loop might simply mean creating another service or series of components as part of your application. You create the tiers as necessary for your application. Besides, the term tier is fairly loose, and you can classify just about any major component as a tier."
In the above paragraph the only information that is actually useful to me is "Tiers can be logical as well as physical." In fact, if you have been programming for a few years, you don't need this peice of information because you probably know that tier can be logical or physical. Throughout the whole book I found lots of fillers like this one.
I read lots of computer books and all I want is quick information and I don't have time to go through all these unnecessary words to find them. If I want to read books with fillers, I would read a novel. So I am returning this book (sad).
I suggest another book which is far more concise and get to the point "Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0" The only thing this book lacks is the description about interaction between SQL Server and COM. I have not finished this book yet but so far I am giving it at least a 4 star.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book on COM with VB
Comment: This is the best practical book on all the new Microsoft technologies that I've read so far. We use this book at our company to train new VB developers. Experienced VB developers who have never used MTS or DCOM also found it very valuable. It really cuts to core of what a VB developer would need to learn to be both knowledgeable and productive. Well worth the money.
Rating: 3
Summary: GOOD BACKGROUND, EXAMPLES TOO SIMPLISTIC
Comment: This book provides good background information on COM, DCOM and ADO, but there is little that can't be found elsewhere. Too much time is spent on covering ADO. The examples are too simplistic to be useful. This book is a good place to start, but it doesn't take you very far.
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Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to COM and COM+ by Wayne S. Freeze ISBN: 0782125581 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example by Peishu Li ISBN: 0789724588 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 17 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Scot Hillier's COM+ Programming with Visual Basic by Scot Hillier ISBN: 067231973X Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns by William Stamatakis ISBN: 1572319577 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual Basic 6.0 and MTS by Jim Maloney ISBN: 0130213438 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 16 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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