Effective Com: 50 Ways to Improve Your Com and Mts-Based Applications (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

The next chapter presents tips pertaining to the all-important interfaces in COM. Both the big picture and some precise details are covered to help you implement your interfaces safely, as well as the implementations and the particular challenges that COM presents. The authors emphasize "defensive coding"--pointing out dangerous assumptions and offering suggestions for producing reliable components.

Apartments, security, and transaction management are addressed in succeeding chapters. As with the previous topics, they are handled via a series of specific tips and suggestions. If you're new to COM programming, you should read some more introductory texts first, but if you've already experienced your baptism by fire into the subject, this title can help ease future pain. --Stephen Plain

Product Description
In Effective COM, the authors, Don Box, Keith Brown, Tim Ewald, and Chris Sells, offer 50 concrete guidelines for creating COM based applications that are more efficient, robust, and maintainable. Drawn from the authors' extensive practical experience working with and teaching COM, these rules of thumb, pitfalls to avoid, and experience-based pointers will enable you to become a more productive and successful COM programmer. These guidelines appear under six major headings: the transition from C++ to COM; interfaces, the fundamental element of COM development; implementation issues; the unique concept of apartments; security; and transactions. Throughout this book, the issues unique to the MTS programming model are addressed in detail. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of COM concepts, capabilities, and drawbacks, and the know-how to employ COM effectively for high quality distributed application development. A supporting Web site, including source code, can be found at http://www.develop.com/effectivecom.

Hey man, you should told us that DCOM deserve to be dead at the beginning. :-(

COM is for desktop, period.


Best Practices for COM Development! Very practical!   February 1, 2001
 1 out of 5 found this review helpful

Your looking for a book that will make you a more productive COM developer, get this one immediately.


bark like a dog you bird.   October 4, 2000
I am one cheap programmer. I've survived, most of my 11 years buying less then 20 books (employers bought the rest). However, com objects made me loosen the purse strings. To use com objects from ASP scripts I found the following references NECESSARY:
OREILEY book on ASP,
OREILEY book Learning dcom,
Oreiley book on VBScript,
Oreiley book on Developing ASP Components.

I've also noticed, that the books really do not overly overlap that I would consider any of the books a waste of money.
I found with the knowlege in those books I could (and did) create COM objects for use from C++ and ASP scripts. It was after READING the first 154 pages of this book (Effective Com...) that my com objects went from functional to being a work of art. (Ok, I'm overstating it).

Things that should be obvisous can get lost in the complexity of com. Effective com looks at what's bad and good about com, and that knowlege is power after your basic com skills have been established. I'm not sure I would want to pay full price, but amazon has a good price on this book. Enjoy and have fun!

nbg.