Product Description
(Pearson Education) Gives the working programmer guidelines for writing better code and designing better systems, addressing general practices and critical issues in working with COM. Also discusses databases and effective data access, and other important uses of Visual Basic, and using XML, IIS, and ASP in Web applications. Softcover. DLC: Microsoft Visual BASIC.
From the Inside Flap
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
