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Humorous and lightly written, Brill's book provides (to my knowledge) on of the most definitive accounts of COM+ out there. The first five chapters, focus solely on COM, and in themselves they provide a great introduction to those unfamiliar with this topic. Chapters 6 thru 12 then address the major COM+ topics: transactions, security, queued components, while the appendices cover some of the more esoteric ones (object pooling, application proxies etc). Many of the chapters include practical "provisos" one must watch out for when implementing COM+. Mr. Brill has definitely done his homework here. A must buy for anyone wanting to write enterprise COM+ applications.

Brill's book should really be called "COM and COM+", because the first section of the book is dedicated entirely to explaining Microsoft's Component Object Model. With his intuitive analogies and witty style, Brill articulates some of the more complex COM concepts (Marshalling, Threading etc), although the understanding of some of these concepts is probably not central to those who will be utilizing COM+. The coverage of COM+ is outstanding - far more definitive and lucid then anything I have from Microsoft. Much empirical experimentation is evident from reading the text. This not another COM+ book which simply retreads existing MSDN documentation, but a work that transcends it.

I have several books on COM+ but this is the best one. Author introduced COM+ in an appropriate manner and order and users are easily able to understand this technology. I really recommend this book to whom is eager to know COM+.