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Visual Basic 6 Developers Handbook
by By Robert Singer—NOCCC, rsinger1@juno.com - May 19, 2000 at 20:04:31:
The Visual Basic 6 Developer’s Handbook is geared to the intermediate to advanced user of Visual Basic that wishes to improve his or her programming skills.The book will help you understand topics such as client/server programming, SQL, the Remote and Active Data Objects, developing code components, and developing Active Server Pages.
The book is organized into five parts that cover different aspects of the Visual Basic language. The first part of the book is dedicated to database development. It includes topics such as what is new with Visual Basic 6 and includes information concerning the Data Environment, the Data Form Wizard, Data Enhanced Setup Wizard, and Visual Source Safe. There is also discussion of SQL Server: how to install it, what is new for SQL Server 7.0, developing stored procedures, using SQL Wizards, the ADO Object Model, and understanding Three-Tiered Applications.
Part II - Object Programming discusses characteristics of objects, Building ActiveX Components and ActiveX Controls, and Extending the IDE with Add-Ins.
Part III -Extending Visual Basic discusses the Windows API, the system registry, built-in ActiveX Controls, and Optimizing VB Applications.
Part IV: Programming for the Web describes Web Development Basics such as HTML, VBScript, Active Server Pages, and Developing Internet Applications using Dynamic HTML, Developing IIS Applications, and the structure of an IIS Applications Part V: Programming Office 97 introduces the reader to an introduction of VBA, using the Visual Basic Editor with Word, and Excel , the Excel, Word, and Outlook Object Model.
Accompanying this book is a CD that contains all the example code and demo versions of third-party tools.
The author, Evangelos Petroutsos, is a computer engineer who has worked for several corporations and organizations, including California Institute of Technology and MCI. He has authored and co-authored many programming books, including Mastering Visual Basic 6. Co-author Kevin Hough is an author and consultant specializing in high-level client/server applications written using Visual Basic and SQL Server.
With this book’s emphasis on what is new for Visual Basic 6.0, database programming and n-tier architecture the reader will probably want to install both Visual Basic 6.0 and either SQL Server 6.5 or 7.0 and try out some of the examples in this book.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to enhance their programming skills and learn to develop Visual Basic in an Enterprise-level environment. This over 1400 page book covers a great number of subjects in general terms and would be a great edition to most Beginning/Intermediate level Visual Basic programmer’s libraries.
This book retails for $49.99. For further information about this book and others published by Sybex please contact their Web site at www.sybex.com.
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