Distributed .NET Programming is more than the .NET replacement for DCOM. As Andrew Troelsen states in the Foreword, "Just as ADO.NET has nothing to do with classic ADO, the .NET Remoting story has nothing to do with classic DCOM." So if you're in the business of building systems that span process boundaries (and … if you're a serious programmer, you probably are) you need to get up to speed on yet another great leap forward with .NET.

Every book in this series has the hallmarks of a serious, focused and above all, high-tech treatment of a specific topic. The dedication of the author to providing something tangible and valuable for your money is so visible it almost stands up on the pages. You can see it clearly in the introductory "Anticipated FAQ" in the front.

Another thing this book is not is a book about Windows programming. All the examples can be done with the free VB.NET compiler available with the .NET Framework SDK (although the Visual Studio IDE would certainly help).

The close working relationship between Barnaby and Andrew Troelsen can be seen by both the Foreword and the fact that the last hundred pages is actually a chapter from Troelsen's book on the VB.NET Framework.

Applications: ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Web Services, MSMQ, COM and COM+

About the Author

Tom Barnaby is an instructor, consultant and one of the all around high tech guru's at the consulting-training-writing company Intertech. Intertech encourages their instructors to become high-tech guru's and they even give them paid company time to do it. They figure that everybody wins that way. Other than that, Tom is an all around nice guy because he likes cats.