Visual Basic 6 Business Objects - Hardcover

Lhotka, Rockford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 186100107X ISBN 13: 9781861001078

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

HARD TO FIND

About this title

From the Publisher

This book is aimed at experienced application developers, who have developed applications in Windows using Visual Basic. It will also appeal to intermediate-level programmers because it presents components and techniques that can easily be integrated into their applications.

From the Author

About this book
I wrote this book because I really enjoy object-oriented programming, and yet I am almost always faced with the need to provide scalable solutions in a client/server setting. Additionally, the need to build multiple user interfaces that reuse the same business logic is becoming more and more common over time.

The techniques and concepts in this book are taken from projects that I and other consultants at BORN Information Services have successfully implemented. I wanted to formalize and share these concepts, and thus the book came into being.

The one truism when working with objects and client/server technologies is that there are many ways to solve each problem - each with individual strengths and weaknesses. In short, there is no right answer for every situation, just an answer with acceptable compromises. My book illustrates one way to develop object-oriented, client/server applications that I know works well in a variety of business scenarios.

Many of the techniques discussed in the book are adaptations of those used in other high-end tools such as Forte'. I have spent many hours in discussions with experienced designers and developers regarding how object-oriented technologies and client/server technologies intersect in Forte', C++, Java, COM, CORBA and so forth. Thus, this book illustrates one way to design applications by using various techniques distilled and adapted such that they are effective in the Visual Basic and COM environment.

This is the second edition of this book, the first was written for Visual Basic 5.0. The concepts and techniques that worked well in VB5 also work well in VB6 - something I believe illustrates the value of the architecture covered in the book.

For this new edition of the book I have enhanced Chapter 4 to cover the new techniques available in VB6 for marshaling object data across the network. I also substantially improved the design of the server-side objects for use in MTS, increasing scalability and simplifying the code overall. Finally there are two new chapters, illustrating how to build an object-based user interface using the new IIS Application and DHTML Application project types within VB6.

Code well, have fun!

Rocky

rockyl@winternet.com

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 186100107X
• ISBN 13: 9781861001078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700