April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1024 pages
23h 26m
English
In This Chapter
Building distributed Windows applications did not start with .NET. The goal to build Windows applications that were composed of pieces of software executing on multiple platforms goes back to OLE and Kraig Brockschmidt's groundbreaking book, Inside OLE (first and second editions). The first edition of this book was published in 1993 with the second edition following in 1995. In the preface to the second edition, Brockschmidt draws an analogy between what he perceived as the current state of affairs and a book he had read titled The Chalice and the Blade ...