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Title: Inside Distributed Com by Guy Eddon, Henry Eddon ISBN: 1-57231-849-X Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (16 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This is a *DEAD* technology
Comment: Micro$oft is famous for its ability to push out new development technologies. The reason behind this planned obsolesence is obvious, every time they come out with something new people will have to open their wallets to "keep up."
DCOM is just another disposable technology. As such, it was a complete failure; one that the marketing folks at M$ have tried to bury as quickly as possible under an avalanche of .NET hype.
DCOM was hard to port because, like COM, it is based on a binary standard (i.e. a standard that changes when you leave x86 and go to 64-bit RISC). Not only that, but DCOM doesn't support distributed transactions. Worst of all, DCOM is a very, very complicated technology to use. Three strikes... YOU'RE OUT!
The half-wit MBAs at Micro$oft realized their mistake and have abandoned DCOM, leaving it forever in the backwaters where the only record of its sorry existence are stupid books like this.
I have no idea why someone would want to buy this book. Folks, this is a dead technology. It is no more. It is an ex-techology. If you buy this book, you are lying to yourself. This book will sit an gather dust, unless you can find more productive uses for it...like burning it to stay warm.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Second Book
Comment: great book for those that already know the workings of com/dcom, but want a better understanding of how things work under the hood (and way under the hood). this book is not VC++ 6.0 or ATL3.0 oriented - but you'll need to be pretty proficient in both or this is not your best use of funds. if you want the rest of the story behind marshalling, esp custom, std, and type lib, then is the best book i have found. certainly not a replacement for grimes - but certainly a notch or two above many of the WROX/Grimes products in both completeness and correctness.
Rating: 4
Summary: This is the second best book on DCOM
Comment: The best of course is Richard Grimes, professional DCOM programming.
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Title: Inside COM (Programming Series) by Dale Rogerson ISBN: 1572313498 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Designing Solutions With Com + Technologies by Ray Brown, Wade Baron, William D. Chadwick ISBN: 0735611270 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: Professional Dcom Programming by Richard Grimes ISBN: 186100060X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Essential COM by Don Box ISBN: 0201634465 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Network Programming for Microsoft Windows, Second Edition by Anthony Jones, Jim Ohmund, Jim Ohlund, James Ohlund ISBN: 0735615799 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 13 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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