If I had had this book before I started junior high school, I think I would have enjoyed the experience a whole lot more. Cassel gives practical, concrete advice on everything from test taking to organizing your life to making friends and handling peer pressure. My son liked the interactive nature of the book and the fact that it was geared toward him as a Christian youth. I liked that it got him thinking about those upcoming junior high years, what he could expect, and how he could handle it all. Now if Cassel would just do a practical dating guide that I could hand him in a couple more years!

Teens and parents can face those awkward, confusing and often troubling junior high years with a bit less trepidation thanks to Cassel's accessible handbook. This significant source of practical help is filled with simple ideas for improving study skills, making new friends and nurturing existing friendships, learning the how-tos of good decision making, avoiding peer pressure, and setting and reaching academic, social and spiritual goals. Cassel here combines her professional writing skills as the author of over 200 articles, devotions and stories with her personal family experience as a mother of four. Categorized into three general subjects "Study Skills," "Friendship Factor," and "Deciding for Yourself," each includes four sub-topics which discuss the particulars in greater detail. In the "Study Skills" section, for example, Cassel provides step-by-step instruction on how to take better classroom notes, increase listening skills, prepare for tests on a regular schedule and set realistic academic goals. Each chapter includes an informative anecdote, ideas on getting organized, blank goal-setting sheets for students to complete, Bible verses to meditate on as well as plenty of encouragement from the author. Discussion questions at the back of the book can be read alone by the teenager, with parents or as a group assignment. A great tool for improving life at home, church and school.

As both a teacher and mother I find this a valuable resource for students. Although the book is listed for ages 10-14, it is of benefit for any jr high or sr high student.

The Jr High Survival Manual offers practical suggestions about goal setting, time management, test taking, adjusting to a new school, making friends, handling peer pressure and decision making.

Along with relevant material, the book has cartoon drawings, scripture and interactive pages for the reader.

I would recommend the book for all jr high students as well as teachers, youth workers and counselors.

I bought this book after doing some research for a good C++ book. I had decided on a completely different title when I discovered this one on the shelf and I bought it instead.

This book is not "light reading" by any stretch of the imagination. It is instead almost 1200 pages of fact after fact about C, C++ and C#. It is divided up into sections and subsections, covering first the C language, then moving on to C++, and finally introducing C#. Under each language the author has gone into very deep details about even some of the most obsure topics, making everything very accessible with example code and detailed explanations about the topics he is addressing. The reader will be hard-pressed to come away with a lack of understanding.

The coverage of standard language constructs is very deep. The C++ coverage includes a lengthy section for STL topics, writing your own templates. These are hot topics and the coverage will not disappoint.

Where this book really shines is, as stated above, its depth in coverage. While not exhaustive, it covers some topics in so much detail that a reader will have no doubts regarding the functionality available.

Some of the material is very dated. For example, there is a hefty section about memory model programming, dating back to the 16-bit OS days. For a huge majority of us, this information is historical in value. Anyone still working in the 16-bit world will benefit more. Another section that shows its age involves direct screen writes, again going back to the days prior to 32-bit Windows.

This book has one flaw, in my opinion, and it's that it's geared towards Windows developers. I suppose the C# aspect is indicative of that for now, but other more fundamental operations, such as spawning child processes, are discussed in a very Windows-centric way. I think the book would have been perfect if there was some contrasting information for the way UNIX and Mac handle this kind of operation.

For the Windows developer, there are several sections adding up to over 250 pages that discuss Windows application development. AFTER that, it plunges into .NET topics, giving an excellent primer.

Although this book is geared towards Windows developers, much of it can be applied to other platforms. It is an outstanding book for its coverage of the languages it targets and should be considered when searching for a book on C or C++.

If you are going to code in C, there are two books you need to read, this one and K&R 'The C programming language.' This book is a sweet reference for C++ as well.

The book presents sample progams with each tip (1700 tips). Each program's source code is on the CD -- along with a Borland C++ compiler (the programs work with a wide range of compilers -- from GCC on Linux to Microsoft).

A great reference.

The book is excellent for beginners who have never seen an IDE before. The author uses the term C# where he should use the term "Visual Studio .NET" instead. C# is a programming language. For instance, the second chapter is titled "Navigating C#" but he really talks about navigating the IDE. I suspect a search-replace of C# to VB.NET you could convert it into a VB.NET book.
(of course with a bit more than that).

I was looking for a book to quickly learn the LANGUAGE C#, not a study of Visual Studio .NET, which takes all of about 1 hour or less for an experienced software developer to learn. If the title were changed to "Teach Yourself Visual Studio.NET in 24 hours", I'd give it 5 stars.

Bottom line, if you are a C++ or Java software engineer who wants to come up to speed on C#, this is not the book for you.

The book was helpful in starting me on the path to writing in C#. It was easy to understand unlike other books on programming I have read and had examples and projects that were doable by me not just those who wrote it. It did take me longer than 24 hours to finish but was worth it.

I came to C# in 24 hours with a background in programming and management of the software development process. The book is easy to read, is well organized with helpful exercises for each hour (chapter). It contains essential information about the language that is missing from the core reference works. I will keep it on my bookshelf for ready reference.

I asked James Foxall a few questions via email and he answered them promptly and with excellent care.

If you want to learn .NET, the very first step is to learn a .NET language. C# is probably the best one to choose. Some .NET programming books offer an overview of C#, which is never sufficient for learning the language in earnest.

This book covers C# the core language, using clear explanations and to the point examples. It's an easy read. Actually even includes an overview on object oriented programming, though there are much better books out there for learning that. I think the best is an oldie by Robert Lafore, "Object Oriented Programming in Turbo C++", which is also probably the best book ever written on core C++.

This book also primes you on the fundamentals of the .NET architecture, though not much more than that. If you need
a deeper understanding of .NET architecture and familiarity with it's class library, then you need other books besides this one. The focus on C# Primer Plus is squarely on the core language, as all the examples use the Console class. In some respects that's a good thing, though I would've preferred more exposure to the class library. So the "Plus" in the title is
somewhat misleading.

There is no companion CD. If you want to run the examples, and tinker with them, then you better type it in yourself, which is just as well since it helps you learn the language.

My main legitimate gripe with this book are the cheap diagrams. Mostly, the author just uses arrows pointing code snippets to explanations, no highlighting or shading, no images, and rarely even borders. Eventhough it's an excellent book, it would've been great with better diagrams and figures.

It's an excellent first choice for a .NET book. You then need to follow it up either with one that includes a rigorous explanation of .NET fundamentals, or with a "Programming" book on Windows or ASP.NET. So you are going to need at least 2-3 books to learn .NET. This one is a good logical choice for the first.

This is an excellent book that takes the reader from inception of programming with C# to the advanced level. The explanations are crystal clear and by the virtue of the fact that the writer does not focus on Windows Form, it does not distract the student learning the fundamentals of the langauge.

I have compared this to the title "beginning C#" by Wrox. Do not bother getting the title beginning C# by Wrox as the flow of the book is not consistent and there are a number of areas where the author does not express him self clearly and fails to convey the message effectively.

I have worked through all the chapters of this great title and I can assure you that when you complete the book and work through all the exercises, you will be able to code effectively using C#. Your second book after this title must be one specialised on windows forms and the .NET framework probably the new titles from MSPress - Programming Windows(r) with C# (Core Reference) by Petzold (currently reading it) and Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffery Richter.

I have given it four stars because a)There are a number of typos which have been corrected by an errata available at the publishers site. b)There are certain aspects of coding the author has not taken into account such as multi-threading etc.

Overall a well thought, cut and presented book on C#"

I just finished reading this book. Despite a number of typos, It's an excellent book. The authors explanations and examples are first rate. Important concepts are well emphasized, and often even linked together, as the author builds on and compares concepts in latter chapters using ones found earlier, while emphasizing important concepts.

As it's a beginner book, it does have some significant coverage of very basic concepts, which some programmers may find tedious. And the extent of the coverage doesn't extend much beyond intermediate level. Most advanced topics are either not covered at all, like marshalling, interop, threading, and regular expressions, and others are only briefly touched on, like attributes and XML comments. What's more it doesn't delve deeply into the FCL, as nearly all the examples are Console apps.

So since I need a complete tutorial of C# and .NET, I've had to complement this book with "Programming C#" and Richter's book on applied .NET. Nevertheless, I think this book provides a better tutorial of basic-intermediate C# concepts than you are likely to find anywhere else.

Sharp is described by the publisher as "a collection the likes of which have never been seen before", a book with such "brilliant lenswork" that it allows one "repeated viewings that never tire or bore."

If you are a photo editor that wants to run images of celebrities that depict every pore, with contrast on the image so intense that the subjects look like coal miners on their way home after a day in the pits, then this is your man and he's in the phone book under Creative Photographers, Inc.

In short, while Sharp represents an impressive roll call of celebrity faces, Parry's style is quickly revealed to be visually monotonous in the form of a collection.

Nigel Parry's Book sharp is a visual delight. His portraits are beautifully composed and capture that exacting moment as a photograph should....

Sharp is an impressive, 144-page, coffee table book showcasing Nigel Parry's black and white celebrity portraits. Parry uses his camera framing and lighting to present private images of movie stars, film directors, musicians, politicians, and entertainment celebrities in a totally new perspective that is both memorable and thought provoking. Highly recommended as a significant and welcome addition to any personal, photography school, professional, or community library collection, these outstanding portrait photos are enhanced for the photography study and connoisseur by an informative essay on Nigel Perry's life and work by Liam Neeson.

This book is about a poor family of five children and their widowed mother. It's about their troubles of being poor and their ability to always look on the bright side. Sidney tells about how the family deals with their problems. The family goes through many hardships, such as an illness throughout the family and a temporary blindness occurring. They think all is over when a twist of fate turns their spirits around.

This book has a great storyline with well-developed characters. It has some tougher words which makes the book an older children's novel. But it is a wonderful book and the author did an excellent job making the reader believe he or she is actually there seeing what's going on and really knowing the characters. I would recommend this book to readers who like stories of growing up and dealing with hardships.

This book is written in the style of its time (first published in 1881). It is the tale of an appealing and almost-implausibly loving family of five children their mother. Their father has died and they are managing, though barely, on their own. Poverty is continuous but not oppressive. The Peppers are resourceful and vigorous. The children lack for nothing when it comes to love, and must substitute industry and premature responsibilities for academic education.

They seem not to suffer much. The devotion of their mother to their well being, and the jollity and flair for fun the children possess temper what might otherwise be, for modern children, a frightening prospect. I read this book to my almost-six year old daughter, who was enthralled, enchanted and amused by the exploits of these five youngsters. Their serious bout with measles, their poor circumstances, their unquenchable good spirits, and their close relationships provided plenty of drama for this chi! ld who does not depend on special effects or motorized games for entertainment. In other words, though the story is old fashioned, even obvious and unsubtle in its moral message of love and devotion, it is still rich with possibilities for a child with imagination.

It is a kind of fairy tale, in the end, as the family circumstances are changed due to a somewhat fantastical coincidence of relatedness with a family of considerable means. But children have no trouble suspending their disbelief, and they love happy endings. The essential values are ones to which families of today still ascribe: love, devotion, simplicity, self reliance, and more. Its old fashioned flavor is one of its charms, particularly for children (and their parents) who have an affinity for things old fashioned, and whose language ability can accommodate more formal speech and turns of phrase now in disuse.

My daughter is hounding me for sequels, of which there are many, and of which I was unaware. ! I recommend this book to families who want to acquaint thei! r children with times past and the timeless qualities that are possible within families. It is a good and quiet book with simple, if difficult problems, and characters any child would do well to emulate. It would interest children who have enjoyed "Sarah Plain and Tall," and the "Little House" books, among others.

This book was the first in a series of 12 about the Pepper family. It was written in 1881 and takes place shortly after the Civil War(1860's-70's). The Pepper books follow the adventures of the 5 Pepper children and their widowed mother. The Peppers are poor but proud and the books extoll the importance of family and love and honesty and believing in yourself. These are wonderful books for children of all ages. They are sweet and funny and have an undercurrent of morality sadly lacking in most books written today. I started with my mothers childhood copy and have read and re-read the 4 books from the series I have been able to track down. I would recommend this and all the Pepper books to everyone. They are especially suited to be passed down from mother to daughter.

This book presents a great deal of information about Cheap Trick's musical career, working from the often sketchy resources that are available from this rather private band. However, the notion that Cheap Trick's career downturn resulted from the band being "victims" of bad production, management, timing, etc. is allowed to be perpetuated, taking some of the potential bite away from the account of CT's history. Similarly, almost no details of the band members' private lives in any revealing sense make it into this book, leaving the band members rendered as ciphers (especially Bun E. Carlos, of whom we never find out any details of his family/romantic life). Overall this book is much like Cheap Trick in general--A fascinating and rewarding experience at most times, frustrating and ocluded at others. Still definitely recommended

The book tells it all from the group's beginning to their most recent album with all the trials and tribulations they've endured. Plenty of trivia for each album i.e. a picture of Rick's wife on one of the album covers. Want to know which one? Read the book. You won't be disappointed!

Hats off to Mike Hayes and Ken Sharp for this book! Reputation Is A Fragile Thing provides a thorough look into the history of Cheap Trick, one of the greatest rock and roll bands. Thank God for Cheap Trick and thank God for this book!

I really didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. I found it a very enthralling, believable read. The characters were so real and loveable, while some remained hated, it's what made it real.

This was not a book drenched in legal terms, I would have expected a book by a lawyer to be very legal and politically correct. This was a story about Melanie Ratleer finding out who she is, during her childhood with an abusive father, to her adulthood following in his professional footsteps. In the present, Melaine is a newly appointed judge, who upon repeated trips back home to her step family sees abuse in others, and people who do things about it through any means necessary.

This was a very well written novel, that kept me very interested. I would definitely recommend this book.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I am looking foward to the next Paula Sharp novel (I Loved You All)that I've purchased. I would recommend this book very highly. I think you will enjoy this book even if you do not agree with the point of views that are a big part of the story.

This is definitely a five-star book. As an attorney who works in the Ohio courts, I found Crows over a Wheatfield amazingly accurate - we're lucky that someone who knows the courts writes so well, too. The portrait of Mildred Steck's abusive husband Daniel is ingenious - he really does talk and act like such people do. I love the way he contradicts himself without even realizing it, the way he seems completely disassociated from his own nastiness. In real life, I think men like him would probably be more dangerous, although I can see why Sharp would have wanted to rein him in a little, to draw a more subtle portrait. My favorite character in this book is Daniel's wife, Mildred. I like her because she defies all stereotypes of battered women - she's just an ordinary person who had the misfortune of marrying someone who was not so ordinary. Mildred is so full of life and humor - the best thing about this book is the way Sharp, astonishingly, keeps you laughing even in the worst of times. The novel's fourth book, in which Mildred starts an underground railroad for battered women, was the best of the four books of the novel. The detailing of how the railroad was set up was so ingenious, and its architects and philosophy so wry and amusing. Quite an indictment of the legal system. Anyone who ever thinks they might end up in a matrimonial court case should read this book.

In the capable hands of novelist Paula Sharp, the so-called "right-to-life" movement serves as a backdrop to an extraordinary examination of the consequences of loneliness on a series of fully-realized characters. The people who live in the pages of "I Loved You All" are fully-realized individuals, each of whom struggles with the anguish of either self-imposed or social isolation. Even the setting, bleak, remote Stein, New York enhances the eccentricities and frustrations of the characters in this compelling, believable, and ultimately redemptive novel.

Told through the eyes of the endearingly hyperkinetic eight-year-old Penny Daigle, the novel gains its tension through the unspoken battle between her beleaguered but vibrant mother Marguerite and the eerily stoic Isabelle Flood, whose anti-abortion stance masks a life bereft of human connection. Penny's sister Mahalia, compelled by circumstances and personal needs, reflects and intensifies the loneliness experienced by the two women who exert the most profound influence over her life: her mother Marguerite and her caretaker/mentor/role model, Isabelle.

"I Loved You All," however, is much more about character development than a plot that pivots around the struggle over abortion rights. The four females who comprise the core of the novel's attention each face their own demons; each confronts a brutal loneliness and each develops the means to face her adversary. Marguerite, though absent much of the novel, has enormous appeal. While young, she sacrifices her adolesence so that she may care for her recently blinded brother, F.X. Denied the opportunity of romance and free time, Marguerite is rescued by a loving marriage, which ends precipitously when her husband dies and leaves Marguerite the responsibility of raising two vastly different daughters. A hell-raiser by nature, the grating endless restrictions of work, parenting and homemaking submerge Marguerite in a haze of unfulfillment. A transplanted Louisianan suffering through life in barren upstate New York, Marguerite staves off oblivion through drink.

Only the steadfast dedication of the two men who love her (her brother F.X. and her beau, David) convinces her to return to her home state to recover. In her absence, her daughters take divergent paths to alleviate their sense of abandonment and isolation. The oldest, Mahalia, obliterates her beauty and effaces her personality as she orbits more and more closely around Isabelle Flood. Paula Sharp draws an exquisite picture of a teen-ager at odds with her family and her self as she presents Mahalia selecting involvement in a dessicated and stultifying "right-to-life" church instead of the unpredictable, but liberating, prospects of adolesence. Mahalia's youngest sister, Penny, is literally hell on wheels. Her unfettered enthusiasm for life and unquenchable thirst for knowledge and adventure thinly mask a child vulnerable to her own feelings of being unmoored, adrift amidst a family which is disintegrating. For sheer, unadulterated energy and commitment to life, Penny is unparalleled; yet all her sound and fury pivot around her profound misery at being apart from her mother.

The novel's most enigmatic character, Isabelle Flood, suffers her own sequestered life. Unwanted from childhood and untouched by love, Isabelle satisfies her need for connection through a ramrod dedication to the precepts of the anti-abortion movement. Though capable of caring for Mahalia and Penny during Marguerite's absence but utterly unable to savor the messy possibilities of love, Isabelle is best seen not as a mouthpiece for a political movement, but the tragic residue of a culture which offers alienated and rejected adults little opportunity for a happy life. She is at once honorable and detestable, idealistic and repressive, caring and insensitive. Her contradictions give her a tragic believability.

In a revealing interview, Paula Sharp confesses, "I can't imagine life without stories. I think I would evaporate if I stopped writing." Her briliant and absorbing "I Loved You All" endeavors to educate its audience about the most painful aspects of life: how humans battle, often without the benefit of emotional roadmaps, to overcome loneliness. That Ms. Sharp has done so though a novel which charts the tumultuous waters of the struggle for reproductive rights is all the more remarkable.

As someone who reads in excess of 80 books a year, I encounter a lot of bad novels. Even in books that are otherwise enjoyable, there are usually a few badly worded phrases or character anomalies that stop me cold. Paula Sharp's new novel "I Loved You All" has none of those errors. It is FLAWLESS. Step into the mind of Sharp's narrator Penny and I defy you to want to leave. Penny is sharp, quick-witted and observant in the tradition of Scout Finch. Her mother, Marguerite, a widow, is spiraling down into alcohol addiction. Penny has an older sister, Mahalia,who becomes friends with the a fervently religious neighbor named Isabel Flood. The neighbor disdains everything from the use of the word 'Jeez' to television and Penny loathes her. But, in Isabel Flood, Mahalia finds the mother she so sorely missed with Marguerite. When Marguerite is forced into residential treatment for her alcoholism, the children are sent to live with Isabel with terrible results for Penny. Reviewers are classifying this as an abortion book, which is a shame. With the exception of a few mentions early on, abortion rarely even enters the book until more than halfway through. It is first and foremost the story of a family, the most lovable family, incidentally, in modern fiction, set against the backdrop (yes) of the abortion debate in the late seventies. Paula Sharp definitely owes something to Harper Lee in her sharp characterizations of spirited Southern tomboys (no matter where they live at the moment) and the way that family loyalties are affected by political issues. The characters are true, the plot flows smoothly (albeit too quickly--this is a book you don't want to end) and the "moral" (such as it is) is there, without overstepping the bounds into preachiness. Whatever your beliefs about abortion, this is a book not to be missed. It is smart, kind and above all, loving in its handling of every type of person and problem. Thoroughly enjoyable, Paula Sharp gives the best of what popular fiction has to offer and a book that anyone who loved "To Kill A Mockingbird" should not miss.

I loved Paula Sharp's Crows over a Wheatfield -- it was so gripping, and so fearless in the way it delved into a controversial topic, and it had the kind of characters you're sorry to say good-bye to at the end of a novel. I Loved You All has those same qualities, but it's a completely different kind of book. While Crows over a Wheatfield was mostly serious (about domestic violence), this new novel is more like Sharp's earlier works, The Woman Who Was Not All There and Lost in Jersey City. It's laugh-out-loud funny, even though it's about a pretty heavy subject -- abortion politics.

I think Paula Sharp's ability to build characters is phenomenal -- when I read this book, sometimes I felt like the characters were more real than me! To begin with, there's Marguerite Daigle, a hard-drinking single parent transplanted from Louisiana to a bleak town in New York where everyone is apparently employed by the local prison or in it. There's her parole officer boyfriend who entertains her children by telling them stories about criminals. There's Marguerite's 8-year-old daughter Penny, a free spirit who knows no bounds -- who, for example, injures herself by riding a bicycle along the top of an eight-foot wall, and whose teacher tells her she's missing the piece people call a "conscience." Penny's 15-year-old sister is furious at her mother and so walks right into the arms of -- who else? A flaming, fanatical right-to-lifer with an agenda of her own. And of all the characters, the right-to-lifer Isabel Flood is the best. She's vivid and well-rounded and entertaining. Even if your politics diverge from hers, you admire her for her energy and uniqueness, and come to accept her on her own terms.

Even though this is a very funny book, I found it also made me think a little more deeply about right-to-life politics. The novel shows what happens when someone who is fundamentally religious finds her religious beliefs compromised by people within her own movement who have a political agenda that is clearly not godly. The novel also shows how someone who is not a violent right-to-lifer might be led to violence inadvertently by associating herself with the wrong people.

There are very few literary writers in America today who tackle these hard political subjects. We're lucky to have a writer like Paula Sharp doing it. This novel is great! I Loved You All is also a perfect Reading Group novel, both because it's beautifully written and because the way it handles the controversial topic of abortion is fresh and interesting.

Moving to .NET doesn't mean throwing away your COM code. Integrating the 2 worlds (managed and unmanaged) is achieved via COM Interoperability and there are 2 main scenarios:
1. Writing .NET clients that use COM servers
2. Writing .NET servers to be used by COM clients

This 1500 pager is split into 9 parts containing 24 chapters and 6 appendices. In my opinion, the heart of this work lies in parts 2-5 (650 pages, 14 chapters) that thoroughly detail how to write perfect .NET components for COM clients, COM components for .NET clients, .NET clients for COM components and COM clients for .NET components. Trust me (and anyone that has read this book), there is absolutely nothing else left to be said about the topic.

The remaining 3 parts cover PInvoke (talking to Win32 dlls), advanced topics such as custom marshaling and two comprehensive examples. The quality throughout is of the highest level. It is a joy to read and full of technical information, a lot of it not found anywhere else. Own this book and forget the online help or any internet sites when it comes to interoperability.

The examples used throughout the book are not overly complex or academic or basic; they are just right. Such a balance is hard to strike. What is also hard to find is a book that treats both VB & C++ developers equally. Many authors will benefit by reading Nathan's writings to learn how to achieve that. Whether you plan to write C# or VB.NET code and whether your COM components were written in C++ or VB6 you will not feel left out or bored going through the chapters.

Although large, it can be read linearly and it will definitely serve as a reference text on your shelf. I particularly enjoyed the sidebars (categorised as FAQ, Digging Deeper, Tip, and Caution) which are full of golden information. I could go on praising it but suffice to say that it could easily be sold with money-back guarantee and not a single book would be returned.

This book represents a very detailed analysis of the issues that arise from interoperating between .NET and COM. The book describes the issues involved in using COM components within .NET with the same attention to detail as those in designing .NET components that are used within "legacy" COM apps. The book closes with a detailed discussion of P/Invoke and some more advanced topics such as custom marshalling. The sheer size of the book might be frightening to some but the book's structure makes it easy to pick up exactly what you need. For example, each major part starts off with an example-rich introductory chapter that is a great help in getting started with interop. On the other hand, the book allows the reader to really dig into the minute details of interop. I particularly liked that the book provides lots of valuable design guidelines and an abundance of realistic code examples. Maybe not a book that one wants to read front to cover but an invaluable reference and troubleshooter for anyone who works in the interop area and needs to understand what is really going on under the covers. The most complete work on this important topic yet.

Currently, this is *the* reference book for the subject area of .NET interop with COM and other unmanaged code via P/Invoke. At almost 1600 pages, it can seem daunting but just treat it like a reference. Open up to the chapter that covers what you are interested in, such as "The Essentials of using COM in Managed Code" (chapter 3) or "The Essential of PInvoke" (chapter 18) or "Customizing COM's View of .NET components" (chapter 12). This last one is one of my favorites because it shows how you have more flexibility in writing COM components in .NET than you have with VB 6.

Another thing I really like about this book is that it has lots of sidebars with tons of useful information that I haven't found anywhere (at least not easily) in the current .NET docs.

Heck, even the appendix is chock full of good stuff like mappings between COM HResults and .NET exceptions and PInvoke definitions for the Win32 API.