Learn Activex Development Using Visual Basic 5.0 [Paperback]

Nathan Wallace (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997

By presenting material in a hands-on format, this title guides developers who are inexperienced with COM, OLE, and ActiveX into full mastery of the capabilities of the development environment. The book is ideally targeted for experienced C++ and ActiveX developers due to the presentation of programming examples using Visual Basic 5.0 with ActiveX.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Wordware (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556226063
• ISBN-13: 978-1556226069
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,140,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Although interesting, the book fails to make ActiveX clear., November 15, 1998

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Victor L. Peters (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn Activex Development Using Visual Basic 5.0 (Paperback)

I have worked a little bit with ActiveX, but I was looking for a book that would clearly explain the different elements of ActiveX programming. Unfortunately, this book does not do that. The examples rely so heavily on the wizards that most of the code is written automaically. It then explains almost none of the code. Thus, after reading this book, it would still be difficult to do ActiveX development because, you wouldn't know what all the code was for. The first chapter is particularly poor. It is a review of Visual Basic which is pointless if you know VB, and way too short to be useful if you don't know VB. If you want a book to supplement other books on ActiveX, this is an okay choice. But, I would not reccomend it as a primary source to learn ActiveX.