Inside COM teaches you how to program COM in C++. The book is packed with great analogies and simple straightforward code examples. Many diagrams are also used to illustrate how COM works. The book tends to be a little dry and gets started a little slow leaving the reader with only programming information for about half of the COM subjects. Also, Inside COM shows it’s age by not touching the subjects of Transaction Server.
Inside COM is a high level read that should only be tackled after you have learned the fundamentals of COM. Side Note: if you are interested in learning the fundamentals of COM read: “ActiveX and OLE : for Developers and Managers.” You can tell much about a book by the first sentence, this book starts with “An application usually consists of a single monolithic binary file.” If you understand the first sentence you will probably understand the rest of the book. Inside COM is not a straight read, but more of a reference tool to look up code examples and help designing COM components.
Inside COM is an excellent high level overview of COM. A must have for developers designing COM components in C++.
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