Visual Studio 6: The Complete Reference [CD-ROM]

John Paul Mueller (Author)

Book Description

Series: Complete Reference | Publication Date: January 4, 1999

Microsoft's Visual Studio 6 takes a revolutionary step forward in the world of enterprise application development. With this one-of-a-kind reference, you and your development team will be able to build all types of large-scale projects from world-class database management systems to full-scale corporate Web sites - whether you're working in the same building or remotely!

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Build world-class windows and web applications with your enterprise team. Microsoft's Visual Studio 6 takes a revolutionary step forward in the world of enterprise application development. With this one-of-a-kind reference, you and your development team will be able to build all types of large-scale projects from world-class database management systems to full-scale corporate Web sites--whether you're working in the same building or remotely! Follow expert author John Paul Mueller's hands-on sections, scenario-based examples, and real-world programs to get help with every development step from assembling the ideal programming team to working together to create high-powered applications quickly and efficiently. The value-packed CD-ROM features hundreds of megabytes of code, including example applications from the text you can put immediately to work in your own environment. Top programming author John Paul Mueller teaches you how to: build real-world-desktop applications and custom enterprise applications; use Visual Studio's powerful Application Performance Explorer, Visual Modeler, and Visual Studio Analyzer to optimize your applications; use Visual Component Manager to publish source code to a central location for remote collaboration and code reuse; create applications that display DHTML; design tools that make IIS work for you using ISAPI, scripts, and server-side applicaitons; use ActiveX to enhance both your apps and your intranet; build a Help Desk application; and more.

About the Author

John Mueller (La Valle, WI) is a freelance author and technical editor. He has written 46 books and almost 200 articles to date, on topics ranging from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads-down programming. He is the author of Osborne's COM+ Developer's Guide.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 813 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media (January 4, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0078825830
• ISBN-13: 978-0078825835
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,981,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 87 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads down programming. His most recent book is "Windows Command Line Administration Instant Reference" (Sybex, ISBN: 978-0-470-65046-2). His technical editing skills have helped over 52 authors refine the content of their manuscripts. You can reach John on the Internet at [e-mail] and his Web site at: http://www.mwt.net/~jmueller/.

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete tutorials & examples, No explainations, February 16, 2000

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peter hsi (Boulder CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Studio 6: The Complete Reference (CD-ROM)

Don't buy this book.

I have been programming for over 15 years and need to learn to use VC++. I started reading from the front cover and started doing the examples on VC++. I found the tutorials difficult to follow, very incomplete, and does not explain what you're doing. In short, you're blindly following the instructions and then the instructions don't work.

Don't buy this book.

Please note the bottom of the front cover says "John Paul Mueller, Best-Selling computer Book Author with 40 Books Published". I doubt I'll find myself buying another one of his books or from this publisher.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hardly Complete, December 22, 1999

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matthew d grondin (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Studio 6: The Complete Reference (CD-ROM)

I would not consider this book a "complete" reference. It totally lacks any support for Visual Foxpro. Also I found the examples to be very short and not very detailed. I ended up returning this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn how to make Visual Studio work for you!, May 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Visual Studio 6: The Complete Reference (CD-ROM)

Most of the computer books that I've read concentrate on one language. So, if you buy a book on Visual Studio, what you normally get is a single language view of the product, with an assortment of small examples in other languages thrown in for good measure.

John Mueller has gotten past the single language perspective in his book. What you'll see is examples where all of the languages are used together to create a complete application. The examples are non-trivial and well designed. John also makes it clear as to why he chose a specific language for a given task. While this book didn't necessarily teach me as much as I would have liked in new programming techniques, it taught me something much more important, how to make best use of Visual Studio as a whole.

There are some real plusses in this book. I found the examples all concentrate on the enterprise, rather than on the desktop. That's a real advantage because I don't write many desktop applications anymore. I also enjoyed all of the tips and especially the Web site pointers.

About the only omission in this book is a lack of any FoxPro coverage. I don't consider this a very big loss because FoxPro is hardly a good choice for enterprise applications, especially new development. The author's choice of SQL Server is a good one.