Scot Hillier's COM+ Programming with Visual Basic (Sams White Book Series)

This book is designed to get the reader started quickly creating business applications with COM+. The five parts of the book encompass Understanding COM+ Applications, Data Services Layer, Business Services Layer, User Services Layer, and the final project.In the last section of the book, readers will put all that they learned in the previous chapters to work by developing the PubsOnLine.com application. This application is intended as a complete learning application that uses many of the features presented in the book.

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The best COM+ book ever
this is far the best com book I have read. I am happy to be in possession of one

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Good overall but ends on a down note
I finished this book over a year ago, and never got around to writing a review. Probably won't help too many with most of the new development moving to .NET, but here goes. Overall, it was solid but I thought it could have done two things better. I thought the coverage on MSMQ could have been stronger and the project at the end did not get tied together as well as it should have. I like the approach of a lot of the Wrox books that really get into detail WHY they're doing something in their projects they use to tie their ideas together. I felt as thought the author really almost rushed this section of the book, and, in doing so, missed the opportunity to really drive home his points. Hopefully he reads these and will take a page out of the Wrox books in really getting down to explaining his reasoning and what is going on when he's tying his ideas together with a project in his next book. I thought he did an outstanding job up to that point though.

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Short, Simple and Sweet - Excellent COM+ Book for VB
It's a great book to possess, When it comes to Component programming. After Don Box `Essiential COM`, this is by far the best COM+ book I have read. It will give you good understanding about not just writing but design and implementing COM+ Components. Examples are great and right to the point.

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Excellent advanced COM+ book
I started my COM+ learning experience with Peishu Li's `Visual Basic and COM+ Programming by Example` and then used this book to get a more advanced look at COM+. This was NOT money wasted. I highly recommend both books to users wanting the learn about COM+ and n-tier. This book is very well written. Developers with a background in MTS may want to skip the `by Example` book but you definitely want to read this book. Scot Hillier understands COM+ (and MTS for that matter) and his style of writing is pleasant to read.

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Hillier writes another winner
Scot Hillier's book COM+ VB is destined to be considered a classic among the great big programming books. I wouldn't jerk you around. In fact I can honestly say I love to read Scot's work. Tony Davidson once said `A Smith can be a common man, but does that mean I see a Smith and think: `There before
heaven go I`? There is absolutely no need to ponder. In fact to ponder this is to get confused. I read and laid down the book again. Soon I'll read more.

Joanne Brady