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Delphi COM Programming | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Harmon
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 314053
Media: Textbook Binding
Edition: 1st
Pages: 500
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1578702216
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
UPC: 619472702215
EAN: 9781578702213
ASIN: 1578702216
Publication Date: January 2000
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Product Description
Microsoft COM is prevalent throughout Windows operating systems--95, 98, NT. To build applications which interface with Windows systems, therefore, programmers must understand and learn to use COM. This book will lay the groundwork for understanding COM, and focus on how to develop applications in Delphi which interact efficiently with Windows systems. The book will include coverage of DCOM, Microsoft's distributed architecture which is based on COM. It will also cover the latest developments in Delphi 5, currently due out in September 1999.This book will teach COM programming to Delphi 4 and 5 programmers. After providing an understanding of the COM framework, it offers a practical exploration of COM to enable Delphi developers to program component-based applications. Typical real-world scenarios, such as Windows Shell programming, automating Microsoft Agent, and creating and using ActiveX controls, will be explored. Discussion of each topic will be illustrated with detailed examples.
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Great book that takes you from A-Z June 22, 2005
Douglas Eilertson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this book gives the programmer all of the tools to write COM/DCOM apps. It is a must if you are planning to go with COM/Delphi. I still think that COM is safer than .NET at the present time. The only drawback with the book is that there is no way to contact the author and the code for the book cannot be downloaded from the web site shown on the back cover.
 Not worth buying January 18, 2001
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think this book is not worth buying, because there are too many features that was just left off by the author, using always the same excuse: "Well, this feature is not commonly used, so I won't disscuss it any further in this book". Besides that, it gives you a big averall coverage of COM. If you want to go to the inners of COM, this book is not for you. It was not for me.
 super book December 20, 2000
David Novo (Los Angeles, CA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just a quick note to say this is a super book. A great, lucid introduction to COM. The section on Istreams and structured files was super useful. If you are ever going to use COM at all, this book is a must
Excelent book! November 11, 2000
Alberto Bianchi (Sao Paulo, SP Brasil)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Um livro importantissimo para aqueles que querem utilizar todas as potencialidades da programacao baseada em COM/DCOM. A introducao ao ADO e bem feita, e com um exemplo muito pratico e elucidativo. Apesar dos poucos erros em alguns codigos, o livro e muito bem escrito, sintetico e didatico. Eu o recomendo. Programadores em Delphi do Brasil, leiam este livro!
COM Basics explained nicely....BUT.....Some Major Typos September 25, 2000
Curtis W. Socha (Carrollton, Texas United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book has already added several nuclear warheads to my programming arsenal. It explained many concepts I have struggled with in a very explicit manner. There is a severe problem with this book however. I have already found errors in the code examples that have hindered my learning. The top code example on page 24, and on page 26 are good examples. On page 24, TObject was not typecasted as a TFormattedInteger and thus could not be casted "AS" an IFormattedNumber. It generated the compiler error described on page 25 even though I had a GUID declared in the IFormattedNumber interface. On page 26, MyInteger is incorrectly declared as a IFormattedInteger, even though no such Interface is declared in any of his other examples. I do not want to belittle this excellent book however. I just simply cannot give a book with these types of errors 5 stars when the writer obviously did not test every example he presents. It is definately still worth buying. I even suggest buying this in tandem with "Delphi4 Unleashed" by Charley Calvert because that book explains COM/Interfaces a little differently and can help you get the concepts faster by filling in some of the gaps. Hope this helps. Curtis S. Lead Programmer/Analyst Insurance Technologies Corp.
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