Brilliantly compiled by author Juval Lowy, Programming .NET Components, Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework--the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines, readers will learn how to use the .NET Framework to program reusable, maintainable, and robust components. Following in the footsteps of its best-selling predecessor, Programming .NET Components, Second Edition has been updated to cover .NET 2.0. It remains one of the few practical books available on this topic. This invaluable resource is targeted at anyone who develops complex or enterprise-level applications with the .NET platform--an ever-widening market. In fact, nearly two million Microsoft developers worldwide now work on such systems.
Programming .NET Components, Second Edition begins with a look at the fundamentals of component-oriented programming and then progresses from there. It takes the time to carefully examine how components can simplify and add flexibility to complex applications by allowing users to extend their capabilities. Next, the book introduces a variety of .NET essentials, as well as .NET development techniques. Within this discussion on component development, a separate chapter is devoted to each critical development feature, including asynchronous calls, serialization, remoting, security, and more. All the while, hazardous programming pitfalls are pointed out, saving the reader from experiencing them the hard way. A .NET expert and noted authority on component-oriented programming, Lowy uses his unique access to Microsoft technical teams to the best possible advantage, conveying detailed, insider information in easy-to-grasp, activity-filled language. This hands-on approach is designed to allow individuals to learn by doing rather than just reading. Indeed, after digesting Programming .NET Components, Second Edition, readers should be able to start developing .NET components immediately.
Programming .NET Components, Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework--the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines, readers will learn how to use the .NET Framework to program reusable, maintainable, and robust components. Following in the footsteps of its best-selling predecessor, Programming .NET Components, Second Edition has been updated to cover .NET 2.0. This invaluable resource is targeted at anyone who develops complex or enterprise-level applications with the .NET platform--an ever-widening market.
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Take the next stepAug 08, 2004
By dannomite
"Danno"
This book is about half the size of many of my other .NET programming books, and yet I've used about twice as many concepts from it than the bigger books. Computer books are just bloated today because publishers know we knowledge hungry programmers are drawn to the supersized books. Well, this book breaks the mold. It is clear, concise, potent and modestly sized. For example, chapter 11 on context and interception and the logging component example is awesome. If you want to take the next step as a .NET programmer, read this book.
25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Excellent book on .NET development, one of the bestDec 04, 2003
By Christopher Brandsma
"Chris Brandsma"
When I was reading the first three chapters of this book I could have sworn that it was miss-titled; it should have been called Component Oriented Programming in .NET. Just so we get this straight, this is not a book about the wonderful components in the .NET Framework that Microsoft has provided -- this is a book about CREATING components in the .NET Framework.The next item that needs to be clarified: What is a component? If you are from the Delphi/VCL world, a component is a non-visual object that can be manipulated in design-time with the mouse and the property browser, while usually being dragged onto a form (TTimer, TDatabase, TSession, TTable, etc). But in this book a component is a class -- the simpler the class, the better. No inheritance unless absolutely necessary, no class hierarchies, but interfaces are cool. Now, once you get beyond the philosophy lessons of the first three chapters, you are left with one outstanding book on practical .NET development. The chapter on Events is worth the price of admission alone. The chapter on Versioning is excellent as well, but the rest of the sections are every bit as good. Many of the topics covered in the book are not things you will find in the help files, or if they are, they are too scattered to be useful. What is covered: a large number of best practices, defensive coding techniques (again the chapter on Events is gold), and general you-really-need-to-know-this topics. One note, some of the topics covered are very large (Remoting and Security are two examples), and if you are interested in those topics, there are other books that deal with them individually. Summary: if you are into creating top-quality .NET software you should own this book.
29 of 30 found the following review helpful:
Harry Potter for ProgrammersAug 26, 2003
By GK
Juval Lowy's Programming .Net Components is the Harry Potter for .Net developers. I usually read technical books a chapter at a time, over the course of a month or two; I found .Net Components, however, to be a real page turner. Seriously! I ran through it in a week, devoting any extra time to the text, and I find myself revisiting the chapters that are most relevant to the work I'm tackling. This book includes material on OO design, threading, Remoting, security, versioning, and other advanced topics that you won't find MSDN discussing in this detail or with this practicality. Lowy's combination of .Net framework insight combines with implementation best practices to produce a book for sophisticated software development with .Net. I consider it the best .Net book I've read, and I've read a lot of them.
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Clear, deep, helpful, excellentDec 11, 2003
I'm an MCSD, MCSE, and an MCDBA who owns many, many technical books. This is one of the very best technical books that I ever seen. The writing is extremely clear and goes into good depth. The book is dense with information and code samples are excellent. Throughout the book, the author offers many helpful hints and potential traps. Also, the comparisons between .NET and COM add a lot. The clarity of the writing slips a bit in chapter 10 (Remoting), but the author still does a fine job of explaining this intense subject.
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Deep & ClearFeb 26, 2004
By Mr. Raymond Ovanessian
"gen2k"
The adulations from the previous reviewers here are all well earned. In my opinion, this is well beyond just a great book; it's a must-have! The writing is very clear without being verbose; and it's depth is better than anything I've seen anywhere on .NET. The author not only provides many new insights, but refines and corrects existing ones found elsewhere, even correcting some guidelines from MSDN. For instance he advises in favor of using "lock" to make methods thread-safe, which MSDN does not advise. Given any doubt, I'd trust this author over MSDN. I just wish the book was longer, and covered more relevent topics. It's so good that I want more!
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