Professional Visual C++ ActiveX Intranet Programming: Incorporating Visual J++ and Visual Basic 5 CCE Control Programming (Professional S.) - Softcover

Li, Sing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861000375 ISBN 13: 9781861000378

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Long Live the Information Superhighway!
Wait a minute! I heard some loud heckling from the back row.
"I thought this is a 'Microsoft ActiveX' technical programming book?!"
It is.
The point is, there are two ways you can show a technology: either in dry, boring isolation, talking about the nuances without reference to the problems the technology is supposed to solve, or as we've attempted to do, applying the technology to a real-world situation. We've chosen to show you ActiveX programming by applying this technology to a large growth area, intranets.

As you'll soon see, the ActiveX family of technologies is a very broad family covering the gamut of Internet-intranet, client-server and distributing computing solutions. It has to be this way, since ActiveX represents Microsoft's entire investment into the Internet-intranet (and object based distributed computing) race.

Within this book, ActiveX will be used as a vehicle to explore many of the concepts and techniques involved in intranet construction. In many cases, the concepts and approaches explored are generally applicable to your practice whether it's Microsoft-, UNIX-, or even Netscape-centric.

About this title

From the Publisher

To use this book you need Visual C++ 5.0, and the latest version of Microsoft's best-selling C++ compiler. This version is 32-bit only, so you'll need to install it on Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or NT 4, which means a 486 CPU or better and a minimum 16Mb of memory.

For Visual C++, you'll need quite a lot of hard disk space - a typical installation is 170 Mbytes. You can do a minimal installation which takes up around 40 Mbytes, but this will mean longer compile times as the CD-Rom will be utilized more often.

Some of the later chapters require you to have access to a network and a second computer to test the code correctly. You'll also need to have DCOM for Windows 95 (information on obtaining this is given in Chapter 8) or Windows NT 4.0.

About the Author

Panos Economopoulos has been the architect, designer and leader for implementations of a number of complex and successful distributed computer systems. Currently, he is Manager of Research and Development at Telesis North. Here, he designed the OnAir series of mobile client-server products that provide efficient and robust remote access to BackOffice servers over a variety of satellite and other wireless networks. He has extensive experience as a consultant to the Industry and has developed, and taught, a variety of courses both at University undergrad level and for mature developers. He's also carried out advanced research at the University of Toronto - results of which have been published in several research journals.

Bitten by the microcomputer bug since 1978, Sing has grown up with the microprocessor age. His first personal computer was a $99 do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC ELF computer with 256 bytes of memory, mail ordered from the back pages of Popular Electronics magazine. Currently, Sing is an active author, consultant, and entrepreneur. He has written for popular technical journals and is the creator of the "Internet Global Phone", one of the very first Internet phones available. His wide-ranging consulting expertise spans Internet and Intranet systems design, distributed architectures, digital convergence, embedded systems, real-time technologies, and cross platform software design.

Recently, he has completed an assignment with Nortel Multimedia Labs working in Computer Telephony Integration, and Advanced Callcenter Management products. Sing is a founder of microWonders, an emerging company specializing in products to fulfill the ubiquitous "computing anywhere" vision.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861000375
• ISBN 13: 9781861000378
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500