- Paperback: 1312 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (18 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735605580
- ISBN-13: 978-0735605589
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.6 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 467,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Create professional-quality applications, components, and user interfaces faster and more efficiently than ever with the powerful object-oriented programming capabilities in the Visual Basic 6.0 development system. From Windows® common controls to data access, Internet, and ActiveX® programming, this book covers core development topics for version 6.0—providing insightful explanations and expertly rendered examples for rapid acceleration of your Win32® productivity.
- Expedite development with the object-oriented capabilities in Visual Basic 6.0—including events, polymorphism, and object hierarchies
- Develop great user interfaces that use the full range of controls in Visual Basic and take advantage of OLE drag and drop, data-driven forms, and advanced Windows API techniques
- Build datacentric solutions using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.0 and 2.1, the DataEnvironment designer, and RDS components for remote activation over the Internet
- Master ActiveX technology to create controls, learning advanced techniques such as COM callbacks, multithreaded components and applications, and windowless ActiveX controls
- Deploy rich, Web-ready components and applications with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and Microsoft Internet Information Server
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About the Author
Francesco Balena is a well-known and highly regarded developer and author. He has written numerous Microsoft Press® books, including the widely acclaimed Programming Microsoft Visual Basic® titles, and edits a popular Web site on .NET programming. Francesco is a cofounder of Code Architects srl, an Italian software company that specializes in using Microsoft technologies to create enterprise-level solutions and programming tools. In addition, he is a regional director for MSDN® Italy, and a frequent speaker at developer conferences.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I anticipated this book being an excellent resource for advanced study of Visual Basic programming techniques because of Mr. Balena's frequent high-quality articles in Visual Basic Programmer's Journal. He seems to me one of the very few writers who can really communicate the theory, structure, and problem-solving techniques required to use VB's object-oriented, ActiveX, and Web related functionality ... with enthusiasm and great source code examples that are immediately useful.
Studying this book and using and learning from the source code examples, libraries, and classes included on the cd-rom is, for me, like a one-on-one with an ideal mentor. I like his tone, his frequent use of sidebar notes and special explanations. He is, I think, by nature an envelope-pushing kind of a programmer and his solutions to many of the ... odd ... lacunae in VB are immediately useful in real-world problem solving. And they are delivered without diatribes against Microsoft or agenda-ranting.
For example, his coverage of the TreeView control, gave me some valuable ideas that I could use right away to solve a problem I was working with in implementing drag and drop.
I've found, to my delight, that this is really about six books in one.
As an introduction and overview of Visual Basic as a programming language it's excellent and I'd recommend it for any programmer who wishes to evaluate Visual Basic's facilities and structure.
As a tutorial on the Object/Class aspects of VB, etc. I found it to be the most lucid writing I've encountered ... and he addresses, with source code examples, polymorphism and inheritance ... areas in VB that have been problematic because VB does not offer true inheritance.
I have only begun to skim and study the detailed section on ADO, but I noticed that his explanation of hierarchical recordsets seemed immediately understandable to me in a way that various articles and white papers I've read have not.
Book number 4 ... I found Balena's approach to explaining ActiveX and COM, dll's, etc. lucid and clear and very helpful. I personally am not at the level where I can grok Dan Appleman's books, and I felt that Balena's focus ... and the gradated source code examples ... are exactly what I need to increase my competence in this area.
And, Book 5 ... I really like Francesco's approach to the new Web features of VB6; there's just enought html content to warm me up to the content on DHTML and he includes his own tools (with source !) for exploring DHTML.
Book 6 ... Distributed applications, ASP, IIS Applications. I hope I can get there, eventually.
What you have in this book is a kind of a "core dump" by an enthusiastic and innovative programmer who wants you to learn what he knows.
Of course, no book is perfect. There are some things on the cd-rom that are mysterious and do not execute as they are obviously designed to do. There is some deficiency in the indexing of the book.
The "heroic" scope of the book does leave you wishing for even more detailed coverage of certain areas like the Windows Common Controls, sub-classing, API call-backs, etc.
The frequent use of re-dimensioning arrays as a solution to problems of the "sparse matrix" type will raise some questions for programmers hell-bent on memory-conservation.
I'm going to be studying and using and having fun with this book and its source code examples for a long, long time. 1250+ pages, 2 megabytes+ of source code : this book has more content than ten of the typical rehashed VB5 books popping out like mangy prairie dogs with VB6 stamped on their foreheads.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I'm an experienced C++ programmer and I needed to learn VB. This book is superb for me. It is extremely clearly written, and manages to not be boring at all. I especially like the example code, which is clear and to the point and written in a very good solid style. It's all here but it doesn't put you to sleep. The author has judged very well what people need to be told and what he can assume they already know. There are a lot of tips and tricks scattered around, which appear to be real tips gained from the author's experience, not just cleverness - it's obvious that the author really knows the subject, and hasn't just regurgitated the manual. I see he has a VB.NET book coming out, that's the one I'll go for.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is the first VB book I have read that was very well planned and thought out, easy to follow and didn't consider advanced VB as accessing a database using forms. This book covers the meat of VB that developers (not college students or programmer hobbyists) need to know to be productive in an actual programming environment. I have tried many other books only to bring them back bacause I couldn't follow their examples because they assumed you would fill in the rest or their examples were so elementary you felt like you were practicing etch -a- sketch on your computer. The book not only explains many of VB's advanced components and topics but it gives you a forest view from a developers perspective and then allows you to hone in on specific aspects of the project. Great , Well thought out, realistic book. Maybe I am just over enthusiatic because the other books were just so bad but I really like Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. Its the best one I've come across yet.
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Published 17 months ago by Grant
A comprehensive guide
I purchased this book as a self-taught programmer, the only previous book I had read on the subject being Visual Basic in Easy Steps, and a lot of my knowledge having been picked... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2008 by Tom
The book is much better than I am :))
I'm very pleased to have this book although I think it's a little advanced for me at the moment. I'm just completing C&G 1,2& 3 and then I plan to go on at which point I think this... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2004 by Mr. Leigh W. Albrigt
NOT just for Beginners!!!!
the book is well set out. it covers some basic ground but moves onto some really advanced stuff. I have used this book to teach myself the stuff the Teachers at my college did not... Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2003
a wonderful writing style
.. the author has a wonderful writing style that is unpatronising and yet easy to understand - OOP VB style is now an 'open book' to me ;-)
Published on 16 May 2001 by A. Nixon
A set of genuinely useful basics
If you are a competent programmer but inexperienced in VB then this is the book to buy. It gives you a "how to" on forms and every major control and excellent sections on... Read more
Published on 10 April 2001
A reader from the West Midlands
As an experience VB 3/5 developer, I found it was easy to learn the new enhancements within VB6 with this book and the topic on ADO is brill, which is ideal for those who only know... Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2000
This is a big book. That's big as in fat.
By telling you too much it tells you nothing because it makes it difficult to differentiate between what is important and what is not. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2000
Excellent Book
This book has numerous valuable tips throughout. It is extremely readable for beginners and an excellent reference for the more advanced.
Published on 2 Sep 1999
It is the best book that I had
I anticipated this book as an excellent resource for developing my database project. The most important thing is that the book covers most of useful controls. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 1999
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