The Essence of COM and ActiveX: A Programmers Workbook (2nd Edition) at Dominant Systems Book Store

This revised second edition features more coverage of ActiveX component development, data transfer, and Internet scripting, while retaining the easy-to-use, "bite-sized chunks" philosophy of teaching good COM programming practices. This book makes COM and ActiveX easy to understand . . . and comfortable to use. The CD-ROM contains 9.5 MB of working sample code to cut and paste into applications. .

Customer Reviews & Comments
I got the 1st edition of this book when it came out, and will get the next edition when it comes out. The book is exactly what it claims to be; I see some negative remarks in previous reviews saying that this book is a workbook and that other books have more detail. They may have more details (debateble), but don't cut right to the bone with critical info like this book does. The info per page ratio is very high. This book is not for the windows or c/c++ beginner, but is for the COM beginner. (FYI to a previous review, COM/ActiveX are essentially the same thing, OLE is based upon these, and the book doesn't cover any "OLE" technology like linking, embedding etc... and clearly states so at the beginning) This is a good solid book for a person wishing to teach themselves COM from the basics up using practical examples. As an aside, I was the lead developer for a successful commercial MFC/C++ class library that used COM, and this book was essential to the development of those parts of the project. Interestingly enough, some competitors of this product had certain bugs; the solution to which was in this book! Final thoughts: This is one of my favorite books along with Programming Windows with MFC by Jeff Prosise (had to give it a plug!)

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