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Product Description PLEASE PROVIDE COURSE INFORMATION PLEASE PROVIDE Amazon.com Review Besides being one of the most readable and understandable guides to the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) (and related technologies) ever written, Alan Gordon's The COM and COM+ Programming Primer also gives today's COM developer an up-to-the-minute guide to COM+, including excellent hands-on demonstrations of installing and deploying COM+ objects. The best thing about this text has to be the author's extremely engaging writing style and clear explanations of thorny COM concepts, like interfaces, GUIDs, and other nuts-and-bolts issues that help make Microsoft's component standard tough-going for beginners. An experienced educator, the author makes use of clear examples and analogies--for instance, describing COM as a "software bus" where components can be shared across applications and projects. If you've been baffled by other books on COM, this book's easygoing presentation may do the trick. It also helps that the text traces each slippery term in the Microsoft COM marketing arsenal. It shows how labels like "OLE," "COM," and "ActiveX" have changed over the years. After a comprehensive tour of the basics, The COM and COM+ Programming Primer turns toward distributed COM (DCOM) and then onto today's COM+. Several useful tutorials explain building COM objects using Visual C++, including using ATL wizards. When it comes to COM+, the text shows how built-in transactions, object pooling, and queued components can be used to create more scalable and reliable distributed applications. With plenty of screenshots detailing how to install and configure COM+ components, this book will let readers get going with COM+ in their own projects. The COM and COM+ Programming Primer shows how basic COM has evolved into today's COM+ standard--not by getting rid of the basics, but by enhancing an already capable component standard with new middle-tier resources. This title provides an excellent introduction to basic COM for anyone new to this standard, and provides the latest on COM+--which will help more experienced readers take their skills to the next level. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: COM overview, advantages of components, COM as a "software bus," COM+ basics, and ActiveX and OLE Object design with COM Interfaces and objects Basic COM objects with Visual C++ Using the Active Template Library (ATL) In-process and out-of-process servers OLE automation basics COM callbacks and connectable objects Threading (single, multiple, and thread-neutral apartments) Distributed COM (DCOM) COM+ architecture and system services COM+ transactions, object pooling, and queued components Three-tiered applications in Windows Distributed interNet Architecture (DNA) Tutorials for developing and deploying COM+ components Interception COM+ events From the Inside Flap Preface Teaching my class at UCLA, an Introduction to COM/ActiveX Programming Using Visual C++, has given me a good background from which to write a book on COM and COM+. The target audience for this book is the same people who took my class at UCLA: intermediate-to-advanced programmers who have little or no knowledge of COM or COM+. By the time you finish this book, you should have enough knowledge of COM to begin using COM and COM+ professionally. My Approach My objective is to teach you the 90 percent of COM that, as an application developer, you will use every day. Most of this is surprisingly simple. But there is another 10 percent of COM that is very difficult to understand and this is the part with which I have often seen otherwise excellent programmers become bogged down. It's not that these "10 percent" topics aren't important, it's just that you can get started and begin using COM without understanding all of these topics. Some "10 percent" topics that immediately come to mind are Apartments, custom marshaling, aggregation in general, manual marshaling of interfa