Book Description
Long Live the Information Superhighway!
Wait a minute! I heard some loud heckling from the back row.
"I thought this is a 'Microsoft ActiveX' technical programming book?!"
It is.
The point is, there are two ways you can show a technology: either in dry, boring isolation, talking about the nuances without reference to the problems the technology is supposed to solve, or as we've attempted to do, applying the technology to a real-world situation. We've chosen to show you ActiveX programming by applying this technology to a large growth area, intranets.
As you'll soon see, the ActiveX family of technologies is a very broad family covering the gamut of Internet-intranet, client-server and distributing computing solutions. It has to be this way, since ActiveX represents Microsoft's entire investment into the Internet-intranet (and object based distributed computing) race.
Within this book, ActiveX will be used as a vehicle to explore many of the concepts and techniques involved in intranet construction. In many cases, the concepts and approaches explored are generally applicable to your practice whether it's Microsoft-, UNIX-, or even Netscape-centric.
From the Publisher
To use this book you need Visual C++ 5.0, and the latest version of Microsoft's best-selling C++ compiler. This version is 32-bit only, so you'll need to install it on Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or NT 4, which means a 486 CPU or better and a minimum 16Mb of memory.
For Visual C++, you'll need quite a lot of hard disk space - a typical installation is 170 Mbytes. You can do a minimal installation which takes up around 40 Mbytes, but this will mean longer compile times as the CD-Rom will be utilized more often.
Some of the later chapters require you to have access to a network and a second computer to test the code correctly. You'll also need to have DCOM for Windows 95 (information on obtaining this is given in Chapter 8) or Windows NT 4.0.
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