Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: An excellent book for a wide range of readers

This is perhaps the best book I've ever read covering a technical subject for Windows programming.Introductory chapters include a fine overview of non-distributed COM technology for those new to the topic, while the later chapters go into thorough detail on both the details of interfaces and the reasons those details exist. The "code samples" break the horrid tradition of Windows programming examples by including thorough textual explanations of the code and even detailed instructions for using development tool interface elements unlikely to be familiar to readers seeking the information the book covers.I'm very impressed by the way Dr. Grimes both provides the new information for which I bought the book and gracefully includes the background material a new COM user would need to understand the DCOM material.Other writers on MS Windows programming, especially those at Microsoft, would do well to look at this book's style and format.