Presents the best VB programming techniques for creating Internet-ready applications. Provides a fully-functional email manager application complete with Visual Basic source code. Features the details behind major mail systems including Internet Mail, Microsoft Mail, Lotus CC:Mail, CompuServe Mail, MCI Mail, and more. Contains hard-to-find techniques for file compression, displaying graphics, message passing, MAPI, file formats, MIME, serial communications, TCP/IP, and more. Shows readers how to create Windows applications capable of exchanging virtually any type of information. Includes powerful custom controls to help programmers develop flexibleInternet and email applications.
Michael Floyd is an editor, writer and technical journalist with more than 25 years experience in magazine, book, and Web publishing. He has served as an editor to numerous high-tech magazines including PC Magazine. He was the first Editor in Chief of Web Techniques magazine, and served as the Executive Editor at Dr. Dobb's Journal, the oldest and largest magazine for software developers. His publishing credits soar into the hundreds, and include four books, 3 newsletter launches, two magazine launches, and countless articles, columns and opinion/editorial pieces.
Michael began his career in 1984 at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California where he worked on the Arpanet and Milnet networks. These would later be dubbed "the Internet." While with NASA Michael also launched SofTrek, a Bulletin Board System designed to share public domain software developed by the space agency.
In the mid 1990's, Michael met Tim Behrners Lee, Dr. Charles Goldfarb and other pioneers of the World Wide Web. His third book, "Building Web Sites with XML" appeared in the "Definitive Charles Goldfarb Series," and sold out its first printing before reaching book stores.
Michael's current company, Beyond HTML, specializes in training Internet professionals to design, build and promote Web-enabled applications.
