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Title: Beginning Atl Com Programming by George Reilly ISBN: 1-86100-011-1 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 (37 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Poorly organized and realized
Comment: To much digging needed to find the few jewels here. The organization of the material is what hurts this book most. In chapter 2, after a brief intro into ATL and COM, they launch into the implementation of an ATL client, which consists (I'm not making this up) of running the ATL wizard and then deleting most of the output! It doesn't get any better further along, either. I recommend reading another title. Any other title.
Rating: 2
Summary: I am sure there are better.
Comment: Chapter 2 was just way too intense. It threw way too much at you, way too fast. I was left feeling overwhelmed, and frustrated. After reading chaps. 2 and 3 four times, I was able to proceed, but chapter 7 proved a disappointment when the example wouldn't work. I even downloaded the code off the site, and checked the errata online, to no avail. When the samples don't even work...well that's never happened to me before. It just didn't work.
I was sticking with the book, because although it wasn't ideal, it was getting the job done. But I am fed up. I am shelving the book, and looking for something else now.
Rating: 5
Summary: How could anyone rate this book poorly?
Comment: This book was one of the best that I have read on a particulartopic...
The authors provide a lot of instruction about how to readthe book, recommending, for example, that you read through the chapter before actually attempting the examples. This is, of course, a standard recommendation (which in my experience many readers of technical material do not follow). Following this advice, I found that the authors were correct, and the material was far more understandable.
I am NOT a proficient C++ programmer.
Yet by the end of the book I was able to create my own bug-free COM server with a full object heirarchy including a collection. I had been unable to understand implementing collections in C++ with other books.
My intent was to have a C++ COM server so that I could hook up a VB client and study the interaction of the two at the lowest possible (for me) level. I wanted watch calls to QueryInterface, watch reference counts increment and decrement. I wanted to see how COM objects were intialized and destroyed.
I succeeded, thanks to this book. END
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Title: Professional Atl Com Programm Ing by Richard Grimes ISBN: 1861001401 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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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: Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0 by Andrew Troelsen ISBN: 1556227043 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: ATL Internals (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Brent E. Rector, Chris Sells ISBN: 0201695898 Publisher: Pearson Educational Pub. Date: 31 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Beginning Mfc Com Programming by Julian Templeman ISBN: 1874416877 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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