Visual Basic 6 UML Design and Development - Softcover

Sturm, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861002513 ISBN 13: 9781861002518

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a powerful notational approach to object-oriented analysis, design and implementation. If you understand and can utilize UML, your object-oriented Visual Basic programming becomes much more logical and effective. UML allows you to design, plan and implement great Visual Basic programs. The ease of learning the fundamentals of Visual Basic often misleads VB programmers. Object-oriented programming, and UML in particular, empowers VB programmers with a system of thinking, designing and implementing their programs in a more professional, robust manner.

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Review

VB6 UML Design and Development provides a solid working introduction to design techniques using today's Unified Modelling Language (UML) standard. Written for those with little or no experience in formal design, this digestible text provides all you need to get control of the software development process within Visual Basic.

The book begins with a tour of UML basics such as case, class, activity and sequence diagrams. It looks at today's iterative software development process and patterns and frameworks for better software reuse. The "framework" offered here uses Microsoft's Distributed iNternet Architecture (DNA) to create a three-tiered application using MTS on the middle tier in a case study for an order entry system.

Starting with requirements analysis, the book provides sample interviews from hypothetical users. This data is then used to construct use case diagrams. Then it's on to interaction, sequence and collaboration diagrams. The sections on class design here are notably strong (with both the traditional CRC cards and UML class diagrams used to model classes). The later chapters of this book turn to implementing the system on Microsoft's DNA platform using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and Remote Data Service (RDS) for database access and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) for scalable transactions.

Besides excellent MTS-enabled sample code to get you started on your own applications, perhaps the best feature of VB6 UML Design and Development is its ability to cover formal design and UML without getting lost in opaque software engineering terminology. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com

From the Author

VB6 UML can make your VB projects succeed
The purpose of this book is to teach you how to successfully create Visual Basic applications using UML. While doing this, the book will also answer most of your VB programming questions.

Today, a VB programmer must understand the following:

How to model a Visual Basic project using UML

How to convert the UML diagrams into VB code

How to write VB code that is efficient, reusable and manageable

A full range of Microsoft technologies such as MTS, ADO, RDS, ...

Object oriented programming

How to build object hierarchies

How to build data provider (source) classes

How to use disconnected ADO recordsets

This book addresses all of these VB issues, and shows how they relate to each other by tying them all together into one Visual Basic project. The first half of the book will teach you about UML diagrams. The second half of the book will show how to create VB code from these diagrams. The code we write will be for a 3-tier order-entry project. The client components are written using patterns found in the UML diagrams. From these patterns we will create code templates that greatly reduce the time to build the VB project. The example uses data provider classes, ADO disconnected recordsets, MTS server components, and object hierarchies. The style of coding is based on the principles of writing reusable, manageable code. I hope this book will enable you to create great Visual Basic projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1861002513
• ISBN 13: 9781861002518
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400