Professional VB6 Web Programming - Softcover

Willis, Thearon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186100222X ISBN 13: 9781861002228

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This book looks at the special demands of web programming, as well as its flexibility, and will introduce you to DNA - Microsoft's web development structure. Programming the browser through a variety of techniques - DHTML, scripting and VB components is discussed. Then how you can use VB to incorporate and customize browsers in your traditional VB applications is covered using MTS and MSMQ. From here, combining ASP and VB to produce dynamic web pages and sophisticated business logic processing for your website is discussed . Once the data has been collected, retrieving data through SQL Server and ADO is covered. Finally data transfer across the web with XML and the new web programming mechanism, Web Classes are introduced.

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Review

Visual Basic 6.0 is ready to take on the Internet with a variety of options for Web development, both on the server and client-side. That's the argument of Professional VB6 Web Programming, a wide-ranging tour of the strengths of VB for Internet development on the Microsoft DNA platform. This book provides much essential information for any intermediate to advanced VB developer who wants to make the shift to the Internet/intranet development using their favourite tool.

Professional VB6 Web Programming provides in-depth coverage of an entire spectrum of options for the VB development on the Web. For instance, the book provides a guide to using Visual Basic to create business objects used with Visual Inter Dev and the ASP for delivering Web pages on-the-fly.(When used with MTS, this approach greatly improves scalability within the ASP model.)

While there are a number of books on VB business objects, this book is unique when it turns to using Web Classes for creating ASP-based applications from within VB. (The author's example here--a soup-to-nuts tour of a message board application created with Web classes--is itself probably worth the price of this book.)

Another potential standout here, which most developers probably don't think about, is the possibility of using VB to process CGI scripts. (The authors write a custom class to manage stream I/O, usually missing from VB, to pull this off. They also show how to use regular expressions from within VB.)

Throughout this book, its team of authors cover virtually every new and emerging technology, such as XML, RDS and CDONTS (for messaging), but they also manage to cover essential VB Web development techniques in-depth. In all, Professional VB6 Web Programming shows that VB is ready to take on Web development, including cross-browser solutions. This book is all you need to take your existing VB skills to the next level for today's Web. --Richard Dragan, amazon.com

Topics covered: Internet and Microsoft DNA overview, HTTP and HTML, Visual Basic Web support, Web Classes: intro. and advanced features, DHMTL, ActiveX Documents, ASP applications, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, ActiveXControl Pad, custom ActiveX controls, Web Browser clients, ExecWB commands, VB server-side components, ADO, RDS, MTS, MSMQ, CDONTS and mail messages, CGI and VB.

From the Publisher

Online discussion of the topics in this book available at Wrox's P2P site

With Version 6, VB has added the ability to develop internet applications on Internet Information Server (IIS), the free web server that comes with NT Server.

Previously web functionality was static and limited but using IIS, ASP and ADO sophisticated, dynamic, data-driven web applications can be created. The web is the fastest growing programming area, now a powerful new platform for VB6 programmers to program web-based applications exists.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 186100222X
• ISBN 13: 9781861002228
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450