Real Visual Basic: A Practical Approach to Enterprise Development in the Corporate World - Softcover

Petit, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201616041 ISBN 13: 9780201616040

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

In this book, expert developer Dan Petit brings together all the practical, real-world techniques and skills developers need to succeed with VB6 in enterprise environments. From project management to database design, ActiveX controls to quality metrics, this book delivers solutions that are proven to work -- and insightful warnings about what not to do! In Part I, Petit introduces the enterprise VB6 project lifecycle, as well as key techniques for gathering requirements, using Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools effectively, documenting projects, establishing coding standards, and keeping development on track. Next, Petit presents a detailed discussion of the "ins and outs" of designing VB software, starting with architectural issues and then moving to user interfaces, application and database design. The book's thorough implementation coverage introduces solid VB and data access coding practices; best techniques for creating ActiveX controls; debugging distributed applications; and more. Finally, Petit walks step-by-step through testing, reviewing, and distributing software, including proven solutions and metrics for quality assurance.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Petit is an independent consultant in Windows technologies and president of FlexiSoft Solutions, Inc. (http://www.flexisoftsolutions.com), a company devoted to producing tools to assist developers in building applications. He has worked as a programmer, designer, team lead, and system architect for major companies in the telecommunications, hospitality, and insurance industries. With more than twenty years of programming behind him, Dan has acquired extensive experience developing enterprise systems and in-depth knowledge of Visual Basic.

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From the Back Cover

Real Visual Basic features the issues, methods, and proven techniques you need to develop effective enterprise applications in the real world. This book explores Visual Basic's advanced capabilities and shows how VB provides solutions to the complex development challenges for corporations. Drawing on his extensive experience, the author dispels many misconceptions about the Visual Basic language, highlights its object-oriented capabilities, points out common programming mistakes, and offers practical tips for real-world programming success.

This book addresses the major areas of enterprise development, including software lifecycle models, application architecture and design, hard-core coding and debugging, quality assurance, and project management. You will find detailed information on essential topics such as:

• Rapid Application Development (RAD) and VB
• Requirements-gathering and documentation
• Object design in VB
• User-interface design, including forms and prototyping
• Advanced data access coding
• MTS and MSMQ considerations in system architecture design
• Asynchronous program flow and creating ActiveX controls
• Practical quality assurance techniques
• Software distribution and creating and enforcing coding standards

Numerous examples and anecdotes from actual VB corporate development projects illustrate the mistakes to avoid as well as the approaches and techniques that lead to effective enterprise solutions.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201616041
• ISBN 13: 9780201616040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464