Visual Basic Distributed (MSCD Exam Cram) - Softcover

Certification Insider Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576103757 ISBN 13: 9781576103753

Publisher: Coriolis Group,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

Prepares reader to develop distributed (modular, multitier) applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and to pass the new MCSD exam #70-175. Covers developing conceptual and logical design, deriving the physical design, establishing the development environment, creating user services, creating and managing COM components, creating data services, testing the solution, deploying the application, and maintaining and supporting the application. Provides exclusive tear-out Cram Sheet with tips, acronyms, and memory joggers (mnemonics) to improve recall immediately before the exam.

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Review

Even if you've used Visual Basic before, chances are you'll want to review its capabilities for creating state-of-the-art distributed applications on the Windows platform before attempting to pass Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 Distributed certification test (Exam 70-175). MSCD Visual Basic 6 Distributed Exam Cram provides a tour of what VB can offer when it comes to creating web-based, multi-tiered applications. This book is certainly an invaluable guide to high-end VB.

This title succeeds on several levels. First, it provides a quick-start to understanding the way Microsoft partitions application functionality between clients and servers in distributed multi-tiered applications. (Chapters here concentrate on presentation services, user services and data services.) There's a good deal of hands-on information on essential subjects like configuring MTS and remote objects with DCOMCNFG.EXE. The author also shows you how to create MTS-enabled DCOM objects using VB. (These objects will connect to a database on the back-end using ADO and with the transaction and resource-management of MTS, you can create highly scaleable applications.)

The emphasis here is on using VB to create web-based interfaces, not standalone clients. (There's help here with using VB WebClasses-for delivering HTML on-the-fly with ASPs, and how to use DHMTL with Internet Explorer.) Clearly, Visual Basic used in a distributed setting requires an entirely new way to think about programming. This book shows you what you need to get started. Practice questions and a full-length test help you prepare for the certification exam.

Even if you are not preparing for this exam, MSCD Visual Basic 6 Distributed Exam Cram functions nicely as a compact review of how to use VB for building multi-component web-based applications. Read this book to prepare for Microsoft certification, as well as to get a head-start to some of most advanced VB programming strategies. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Coriolis Group,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1576103757
• ISBN 13: 9781576103753
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400