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Active Visual Basic (Microsoft Programming Series)

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The Eddon boys clearly define the essence of VB development. You can literally pick this book up and read it from cover to cover or reference specific topics for review. The Eddons' provide a clear discussion of Microsoft's ActiveX approach as it relates to VB and VB related Web development (ASP, VBScript, and IIS). This book is not bogged down in endless code examples that have little significance to development efforts. It is a verbose descriptive book emphasizing theory and comprehension, sprinkled with precise examples that are easily understood and duplicated. Hands down this is the best book I have found on VB ActiveX and the Web.

Before reading this book, I never quite understood where the COM and ActiveX technologies fit in with Visual Basic. This book is well written and clearly explains the inner workings of where VB meets ActiveX.

This book is a must for people that want TONS of code examples, learn how to build ASP pages, and more..But the biggest feature, you will learn how to make your own ACTIVEX Controls! I would recommend this book, for anyone who wants to have the apps support the intellimouse (Source with code included) and other neat stuff. The code projects are WONDERFUL. Also comes with Visual Basic Control Creation Edition! Also comes with a whole bunch of other neat programs that allow you to make ActiveX stuff, like ActiveX SDK, and lots of other stuff...But I would get this book if you have the money! Its a good reference, and a fun book to read through. Have Fun!

This is an excellent presentation of using Visual Basic for ActiveX Components and Controls.

This book shows how you can use Visual Basic to build ActiveX controls and components that can be used in VB, Internet Browsers and Active Server Pages. Clearly written coded examples, easily implemented and understood.

This book provides the only coverage of ADO I've seen anywhere. It also has detailed information on building COM-based components in Visual Basic 5 and then using them across the network with DCOM. It also shows you how to create ActiveX Controls in VB5 that can be used in Web pages by Internet Explorer

This book will answer all of your questions on ActiveX programming in Visual Basic 5.0. Also covers Active Server Pages. Comes with lots of great exercises that you can build yourself

There were some mistakes in the exercises of this book, nevertheless, they were pretty straight forward and simple to understand. I enjoyed reading the book for its simple methods in teaching the advance features of VB such as COM and ActiveX, and I also like the many examples and exercises in the book to keep the readers follow along and to get their hands dirty with coding. It is easy to read and at the same time, very informative.

I enjoyed this book; it's well-organized, nicely illustrated and well-indexed. I found what I needed in a couple of specific cases (this beats many books in my library). A previous reviewer points out errors on p.86 and, yup, they're there. Makes it sound like Drag/drop uses the clipboard and that's not true. Yup. It's a hideously complex subject, however, and this book presents overview and detail in a very accessible way.

Despite some errors in the exercises of the books, the materials covered were presented in a easy to learn and and no nonesense fashion. The book also covered Winsock and Internet controls, tips on using ASP server objects for which I find very useful to read on.