Effective Visual Basic has four goals: to help developers learn superior VB practices; identify the best solutions to common design and coding problems; apply VB to new technologies such as COM+, MTS+, MSMQ+, XML, and the Web; and leverage the full power of n-tier application and database environments. Drawing on Scott Meyers' classic Effective C++ for inspiration, a world-class team of VB instructors presents more than 50 best practices for building Visual Basic code that is more robust, efficient, scalable, and maintainable. They present enterprise-class solutions that address both mainstream Windows environments and Microsoft's latest technologies, including Windows 2000 and .NET. They also offer practical guidance on architecting applications to take full advantage of XML and the Web. For every developer with a working knowledge of Visual Basic -- a community of over 4,000,000 professionals.
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Visual Basic (VB) has become the most popular programming language in the United States. It is a large language and a complex product. Yet the ease with which it builds graphical user interfaces, accesses databases, and supports the Component Object Model (COM) is impressive. This book is written by VB programmers for VB programmers. We assume you have been working with VB for quite some time and, if you’re lucky, in a variety of ways: building front ends, reading databases, generating Web pages, programming COM objects. The goal of this book is to summarize a number of effective VB techniques that we have learned—and put into practice—over the years. This book has something for everyone, from general practices and COM-based components to COM+ and distributed applications. The wider your exposure to VB and the Windows Distributed Internet Application Architecture (DNA), the more applicable you’ll find the techniques. We follow the style of other books in the DevelopMentor series, in that each technique stands alone as an independent item ready for application. We try our best to describe each item as concisely as possible, and to let you read the book in any order you like. In a few cases, however, one rule leads quite naturally to another and thus should be read in that order; we’ll point these dependencies out to you. If we’ve done our job, then reading this book—and taking its ideas to heart—will make you a more effective VB programmer. It will also make you a better practitioner because your skills will improve in other areas as well, such as object-oriented design, MTS, databases, and the Web.
Acknowledgments We all work for a developer services company called DevelopMentor. It’s how we met, and how we keep abreast of the technology. It’s also a fantastic place to spend one’s working hours, and we owe this book (and much more) to our friends and coworkers at DM. If you ever want to see what DevelopMentor is all about, attend one of our Guerilla events—and be sure not to miss out on Thursday night. By the way, it’s not just the employees that make DM; it’s also the students and their energy. Thank you. We also thank Gary Clarke for his sustained effort in getting this project off the ground and flying. We owe a great deal, as well, to Kristin Erickson (and her coworkers!) at Addison-Wesley for her tireless work behind the scenes, bringing this book to completion. The anonymous reviewers did an excellent job, and we thank them for their hard work under a tight schedule. The book is much better as a result. Finally, we’d like to thank our families for their boundless support and understanding during our late nights of reading, researching, writing, and reinstalling Windows. 0201704765P05222001
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Featuring nearly fifty rules for best practice, EFFECTIVE VISUAL BASIC gives the working programmer concrete guidelines for designing better systems and writing better code. Whether the focus is COM, databases, or distributed systems using MTS and COM+, this book offers proven, timeless solutions derived from the authors’ years of experience consulting and training in the VB arena.
EFFECTIVE VISUAL BASIC addresses general practices, from defensive programming to error handling and object-oriented design. In addition, it covers the critical issues in working with COM: interfaces, compatibility, and class design. Rules for building multi-tier applications are followed by a section on best practices for programming the Web. This book also addresses databases and effective data access, among the most important uses of VB.
Highlights include:
- Sound programming practices and object-oriented design principles, as applicable in VB.NET as in VB6
- Writing code that runs correctly in both MTS and COM+ environments
- Improving scalability by not necessarily configuring all your components
- Using XML, IIS, and ASP in Web applications
- Designing classes for efficient database access
The product of a wealth of practical experience, EFFECTIVE VISUAL BASIC enables readers to advance their skills and become more effective software developers.
0201704765B04062001
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Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. For the last five years Ted has worked with Microsoft's Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring SharePoint training material for early adopters. Ted started working with SharePoint 2010 in August of 2008 and since that time has led a series of training classes in which he has already taught hundreds of professional developers how to get started building custom business solutions using the SharePoint 2010 platform.
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Watered down version of the Transactional COM+ Book,
By Harish Reddy (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Effective Visual Basic: How to Improve Your VB/COM+ Applications (Paperback)
This book is a somewhat condensed version of Transactional COM+ by Tim Ewald. However, this book is much better in summarizing (and reinforcing) the important issues when developing VB/COM+/IIS applications as compared to Transactional COM+ which does indulge in gratuitous details too often. Effective Visual Basic is definitely not for beginners, rather, it makes sense only if you've repeatedly wondered why COM+ works the way it does. Rule 3-4 also gives a good understanding of why stateless objects aren't always good. If you ever wondered why Singletons are not good in the COM+ world (or why you cannot stick COM object references into the ASP Session Object) then Rule 3-2 explains it all. This book is a must for anyone designs and implements scaleable COM+ applications. Many of the generic COM+ concepts apply whether you plan to use C++ or VB.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Development does it again,
By William Epp (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Effective Visual Basic: How to Improve Your VB/COM+ Applications (Paperback)
If any of you are familiar with Developmentor you'll understand why this is an excellent book - all of the authors work there. This isn't a book for beginners, but once you get past the fundamentals this book has numerous best practices that will save you a lot of time (ie. if you had to figure them out on your own). This is real world stuff that works - not theory. By the way, the other books I've read in this series are also very good.
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