"Microsoft "R" Mastering: Microsoft "R" Visual Basic "R" 6.0 Development" offers skills-focused instruction for creating database applications using components. Intermediate-level developers work through the curriculum in print and online. As they progress through essential development topics -- including visual data access tools, class modules, ActiveX controls, ActiveX Data Objects, COM components, Internet programming, and application deployment -- the hands-on lab exercises reinforce learning and provide practical experience with programming tasks. By the end of the course, students have created a full-featured database solution. The Microsoft Mastering CD-ROM contains the interactive lessons narrated demonstrations, and complete source code.
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Mastering Visual Basic 6.0 Development introduces readers to the bread and butter of the Visual Basic programmer: database access programs. With lots of detailed prose and many laboratory exercises, this book helps illuminate the new VB6 ways of connecting users to data; combines excellent documentation of the VB6 development environment with solid explanations of certain features of the VB language itself; and gives particularly heavy attention to the mechanics of creating ActiveX controls (including data-bound ones) and to the relatively new ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) strategy for managing connections to data repositories. In fact, the book earns its keep with its clear explanations of these topics alone.
The explanatory material combines descriptive prose with precise procedures, screen shots, and lists of options. Some code listings are included too, mostly utility subroutines that readers can borrow. The real strength of Microsoft Mastering: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Development lies in its liberal use of hands-on exercises (based on the contents of the companion CD-ROM) as a means of helping you understand the VB6 language and development environment. Though the exercises sometimes seem contrived (which, after all, they are), they'll familiarize you with various aspects of VB6. You'll know what to look for in reference books after working through the demonstrations presented here. --David Wall
Topics covered: Data tools that ship with Visual Basic 6, Component Object Model (COM) modules, ActiveX controls, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and VB data-access programs on the Internet.
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Good Book For Preparation of MCSD,
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This review is from: Microsoft Mastering: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Development (Paperback)
I used this book to prepare the MCSD exam, I found it is better than the MS MCSD Training Kit. However, it doesn't cover Visual Sourcesafe and uses SQL server 6.5 instead of 7.0 as lab materials.
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I passed the exam by using this book in addition to other materials.I thought that this book was very good in providing information on every topic. I especially loved building an application from beginning to end. But if you are purchasing it to pass the 70-176 exam, you will need additional material. For example, combining this with MSDN and Transcender is a pretty good combination. I also purchased New Riders MCSD Training Guide. It provided a lot of detail and was quite helpful as well.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Supplement this with something else.,
By Rob Lawrence (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Mastering: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Development (Paperback)
I have sworn by MS Press books for all my certification exams and have to say that this one is by far the most disappointing. I found it to be too superficial to be of much benefit. It works as a decent complement to other resources, but can't really be a primary resource itself.
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This section introduces you to some of the fundamental concepts of Visual Basic development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lab hint, vbg file, detailed information about the labs, packaging your application, practice working with the concepts, following example code shows, following example code sets, data source class, using class modules, bookstore application, custom webitems, using property procedures, data source control, constituent controls, recordset object, dynamic recordset, standard code module, following sample code shows, data access tools, setup for the labs, referential integrity errors, inline error handling, new recordset, other client applications, referential integrity violation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic, End Sub, Private Sub, Internet Explorer, Object Browser, Property Get, Property Let, Class Builder, Lab Hint, Self-Check Questions, State University Bookstore, Data View, Initial Catalog, Incorrect Use, Objectives After, Visual Component Manager, Advanced Data Access Issues, Property Page Wizard, Query Builder, Data Form Wizard, Help Workshop, Public Sub, Using Visual Data Access Tools, Control Interface Wizard, Add-In Manager New!
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This section introduces you to some of the fundamental concepts of Visual Basic development. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lab hint, vbg file, detailed information about the labs, packaging your application, practice working with the concepts, following example code shows, following example code sets, data source class, using class modules, bookstore application, custom webitems, using property procedures, data source control, constituent controls, recordset object, dynamic recordset, standard code module, following sample code shows, data access tools, setup for the labs, referential integrity errors, inline error handling, new recordset, other client applications, referential integrity violation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic, End Sub, Private Sub, Internet Explorer, Object Browser, Property Get, Property Let, Class Builder, Lab Hint, Self-Check Questions, State University Bookstore, Data View, Initial Catalog, Incorrect Use, Objectives After, Visual Component Manager, Advanced Data Access Issues, Property Page Wizard, Query Builder, Data Form Wizard, Help Workshop, Public Sub, Using Visual Data Access Tools, Control Interface Wizard, Add-In Manager New!
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