- Paperback: 720 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (16 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130213438
- ISBN-13: 978-0130213433
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Written for the intermediate to advanced Visual Basic developer, Distributed COM Applications Development Using Visual Basic 6.0 ably demonstrates how VB can be used to write powerful, scalable distributed applications using the distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).
The book begins by contrasting traditional client/server computing with today's multi-tiered architectures (including Microsoft's three-tiered Distributed Internet Architecture [DNA] approach). A general introduction to designing objects with Visual Basic follows in which the author enlists a case study for a video rental database. This includes a presentation of the best of user interface design in VB (including working with TreeView and toolbar controls).
You don't need to know much about TCP/IP to use DCOM, of course, but a section on this popular Internet protocol with the WinSock control provides some background material.
A full introduction to programming databases with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) becomes incorporated into the video rental database example. After a quick look at ActiveX controls, the book provides an overview of COM, along with the benefits and potential risks of choosing between DCOM's (often perplexing) threading models.
After presenting material on object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, the book zeroes in on creating DCOM components, data-aware VB objects with transactions and MTS and real-world deployment issues with DCOM. These chapters provide a state-of-the-art guide to programming with Visual Basic in ways recommended by Microsoft.
Armed with these robust DCOM objects, the book next turns to the Web--first with ASPs and then with VB WebClasses for generating browser-neutral Web pages on the fly. (A final chapter looks at creating Active Documents out of VB forms for use with Internet Explorer.) In all, this practically-minded text provides a useful tour for real-world thin-client computing with VB and DCOM. The book assures that today's VB is all you need to write scalable, Web-centric distributed components and applications for the Microsoft platform. --Richard Dragan
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Format:Paperback
These guys know there stuff! As a consultant at Microsoft and head of the Windows Developer User Group, I am frequently asked to recommend learning sources, including books and instructor-led training. For distributed COM using VB, this is the answer. The book is based on a course the author wrote for and teaches at UCI Corporation (one of our premier partners - look them up [online]), and thus is also an excellent self-study guide.
Congratulations to Jim, UCI, and Prentice Hall!
Format:Paperback
This is a great book for all VB Distributed App developers. Its clearly written, easily understandable and gets straight to the point.
Also the examples are nice and clear - not 100 lines of sample code to demonstrate a simple point, unlike Microsoft help files.
Whilst there is a wealth of beginner books there are very few good books beyond this level - but this is one of them.
If you have a year of more VB experience and you develop distributed apps then buy this book.
Format:Paperback
This is a great book, mostly due to the amount of code examples that it has. With most of the advanced Visual Basic books that I've used, I often have to go look up additional information in help, only to find he exact same information there, too. The silly "hello, world" demos included with these books are not real-world enough for me and still leave me wondering how to apply the concepts to my application. I've never seen any of the demos from this book anywhere else, and they are mostly all excellent. This book has its share of "hello, world" demos too, but they are balanced by some of the best real-world examples I've seen in any other book on programming. It's obvious that the author has actually done this type of programming in real life. I can honestly say that I know exactly how I'll implement my distributed application now that I have this book.
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Most practical book on VB yet!
The CD-ROM that comes with the book has several useful demonstration programs. Plus, there is a fully implemented distributed application that shows examples of handling various... Read more
Published on 18 May 1999
A first-class book!
If you are an experienced Visual Basic programmer and want to learn how to build and deploy complex enterprise applications, this book is invaluable. A+
Published on 9 May 1999
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