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  • Paperback: 858 pages
  • Publisher: QUE; 6th illustrated edition edition (27 Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1562765760
  • ISBN-13: 978-1562765767
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 5.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 593,302 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dan Appleman's Developing COM/ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6 provides expert-mode knowledge of COM controls along with a guide to some of the latest features in Visual Basic. Extremely thorough and densely packed with advice, this book is just right for the programmer who needs to know all the details about Visual Basic controls.

The author begins with a tour of ActiveX and COM, along with some common myths about the technology. His introduction to COM technology is good, but Appleman also explains the pros and cons of COM objects used as in-process dynamic-link libraries (DLLs), standalone EXEs, and remote processes.

When it comes to Visual Basic, the author gives plenty of expert knowledge on class and project options. He covers how to design objects in Visual Basic up close and includes some hard-to-find material on collections and multithreading programming techniques. Appleman also provides an interesting example, a live stock-quote server.

A good deal of the book concentrates on writing ActiveX controls in Visual Basic. Although some developers use the Active Template Library (ATL) and Visual C++ for high performance, it's clear that Visual Basic can do a fine job of creating reusable controls. The author presents an A-to-Z tour of ActiveX control development, with due consideration of such topics as properties, events, property pages, and even security and signing. Final sections on ActiveX Documents and the new Visual Basic 6 WebClasses (for ASP development) show off Internet development. In all, this book offers much useful material on expert-mode topics geared to the more seasoned Visual Basic developer. --Richard Dragan

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Developing COM Components with Visual Basic 6 is a focused tutorial for learning component development. It teaches the reader the programming concepts and the technical steps needed to create ActiveX components. Dan Appleman is the author that Visual Basic programmer's recommend to their friends and colleagues. He consistently delivers on his promise to break through the confusion and hype surrounding Visual Basic and ActiveX. Appleman goes beyond the basics to show readers common pitfalls and practical solutions for key problems.



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4.0 out of 5 stars Very informative book that explains the details bottom up., 3 May 2000
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Recommended text in my opinion. Does a good job of exlpaining how design time decisions impac upon the performance, re-usability of your COM based app.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you need to know what COM is about, then get this book!, 7 Mar 2000
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This books has been a tremendous help in understanding the complex world of OOP and specially of COM and Active-X. It starts from the beginning of the OLE technology and explains the impact of the evolving stages of OLE on Visual Basic and its developers. I would recommend this book to the newcomers as well as to the more experienced developer. A book to have for reference purposes at least.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE Visual Basic / COM book., 6 Jul 1999
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COM is a subject that is covered in detail by many books, but unfortunately, virtually all of them are for C/C++ programmers. Microsoft, in trying too hard to hide COM behind Visual Basic, have really shot themselves in the foot by making important COM functionality inaccessible to all but the most persistent and knowledgeable Visual Basic programmer (see Bruce McKinney's Hardcore Visual Basic for down and dirty COM stuff).

However, Daniel Appleman opens up a new world to Visual Basic programmers. No longer will the word "Objects" be used - Interfaces rule! This is what COM is all about. Once you have finished this book, you will be able to create tight, efficient, and most important of all, safe COM components in Visual Basic.

This now joins Daniel Appleman's Win32 API book, and Bruce McKinney's "Hardcore Visual Basic", as the invaluable "Bibles" on VB programming in Windows.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Heavy descriptions of what should a light and concise read!
This book is heavy to read and digresses a lot from a particular subject at hand (see chapters 7-8-9). Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2004 by byzm99

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written
The technical content in this book if fine but not the way in which it is presented, it is WAY TOO WORDY. If well written could be half the length it is. Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Intro to COM
I read Dan Appleman's COM/ActiveX book, but I focused mainly on the Code Components portion. But by itself, I really got to know how to create classes and objects without having... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars Too wordy
This book is too wordy. It seems that the author just likes to talk...it takes som much book space to cover a certain point. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars I can see clearly now the rain has...
Why is it that programmers, who live in a world where one false keystroke can spell doom, so often have difficulty putting two readable sentences together? Read more
Published on 12 Jun 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a very good active X guide
This book is only suited for beginer in VB, not for developer. Most of the examples are very bored, not real life situation. Read more
Published on 31 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Wake Up and Read this Book!
I had to respond having read the off base previous review. This is one of the best technical books I have ever read and the source code is printed out entirely. Read more
Published on 11 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book For Devlopers Who like to Know how thing WorK
After Reading this book I have become a fan of Dan. The Understanding of How ActiveX Exe , Active X Dll works are explained in a very intersting manner . Read more
Published on 30 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner
Mr. Appleman has done it again. He consistantly produces high quality work. This book is no exception. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Tutorial
This is another example of Applemen's exemplary work. Teaches you exactly what you need to know to understand and program COM with VB6. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 1999

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