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The books will usually be with you within a few days.  There is a small postage charge, so you may want to buy several books at once, perhaps between a few colleagues, as this will work out to be even better value.

Essential COM by Don Box

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Customer comment: Even Microsoft can't Explain COM like this,But DonBox did it. Really this book is for those who want to explore from begining to advanced. In most of the books the author will start with COM technical details, but DonBox starts with why COM?  Really its helpful to understand. Also Apartment (COM Threading Model) concept is explained very well,which is not available with any other books in the market. If anyone is not reading this book really they are missing something.

Effective COM by Don Box, Keith Brown, Tim Ewald, Chris Sells

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Customer comment: Read in two hours, Saves hundreds. This is a book that seems too thin to be useful... at first glance ! I read it like a novel, started at first line and couldn't stop until it was finished. Not only do the authors pin-point problems that COM programmers bump into on an everyday basis, but they also explain why it happens and what solutions to consider. To be short, the one reason why you want to buy this book is that it most certainly will either solve or explain one of the problems you currently have, right at the moment you open it.

Inside COM by Dale Rogerson

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Customer comment: A great book on a complex subject. I have to say that I was quite impressed by the content of this book. I started with David Chappell's book on COM and ActiveX and this took me a bit deeper into this somewhat complex subject. I would recommend it to anyone. One caveat - you must at least understand the basics of C++ to get any serious value from it as this is the authors language of choice. Nice book, though.

Understanding ActiveX and OLE by David Chappell

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Customer comment: This is an excellent book that no programmer should ever go without. Read at least 3 times, and then buy Dale Rogerson and Don Box. EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT introduction to Microsoft's technologies that implement their vision of a document centric system. Microsoft does nothing anymore without using COM/ActiveX/OLE. You must learn this technology if you trully want to become a real hardcore programmer. So what are you waiting for.

Designing and Using Activex Controls by Tom Armstrong

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Customer comment: This book is a must have for all newbies to ActiveX Control Development. Tom Armstrong shows you how to develop a robust ActiveX Control using the most efficient routes.. He leads you past all of the troublespots and guides you with the best methods. I developed my first ActiveX Control within 4 days after walking through all of the great samples he had in his book.. If asked, I would recommend this book to anyone. It's a must have.

Professional DCOM Programming by Richard Grimes

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Customer comment: This is a terrific book! Even if you're not ready yet for the more advanced topics it covers related to remote servers, it has one of the best chapters I've ever read on basic COM architecture (Chapter 3). This book does a great job of mixing diagrams with code and has many sample programs. This is the only book I've seen that does a detailed job of showing how to develop DCOM servers as services. This book is oriented towards C++ developers. In my opinion, this book along with 3 others: Beginnng ATL COM, Professional Active X/COM Programming (both by WROX) and Essential COM (Don Box, Addison Wesley) are must have books for all COM developers.

Professional DCOM Application Development by Jonathan Pinnock

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Customer comment: Broad coverage, good introduction The book provides very good introduction to MTS, MSMQ, MMC, NT Security and Monitoring. The author also gave some valuable ideas/implementations of MBV (Marshal By Value) which is very pratical for those DCOM people with "limited bandwidth". The code fragment are instructive and good enough to get you started to customize your own project or at least to give you the idea where to start. The server parts were unanimously coded in Visual C++ with ATL, most of client parts were coded in Visual Basic, though it is not my favorite language, the author does have insight on this useage...