Visual Basic 6: Error Coding and Layering - Softcover

Gill, Tyson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130172278 ISBN 13: 9780130172273

Publisher: Pearson P T R, 1999

Synopsis

Provides concrete strategies for excellence in Visual Basic development, architecture for easier development and maintenance, and breakthrough solutions for managing Visual Basic 6 enterprise projects. Softcover. DLC: BASIC (Computer program language).

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About the Author

About the Author

Tyson Gill is Senior Solutions Developer at WinResources Computing, Inc. in Carlsbad, California. He also teaches Visual Basic at the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining WinResources, he spent six years as an independent consultant, producing applications for a wide variety of clients in Southern California. Before coming to California, Tyson was Associate Scientist at the ICI Research Center in Ohio, where his software innovations earned him formal recognition as a "Key Corporate Asset." He holds a Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.

Tyson has contributed to books on Visual Basic and makes numerous presentations on Visual Basic program design, architecture, and error coding. He is active in the San Diego Visual Basic User's Group and has authored over a dozen technical articles. He also loves creative writing and has authored an unpublished novel and two screenplays. Tyson lives with his wife, Marcie, and teenage son, Rossen, near the ocean in Carlsbad, California.

From the Back Cover

• Concrete, proven techniques for improving code quality
• Integrated process improvement solutions for any Visual Basic project
• Building a safe coding framework that resists bugs
• Superior management strategies for successful Visual Basic development
• Anticipating, handling, trapping, reporting, and preventing errors
• For every Visual Basic developer, analyst, and manager!

How to design and write indestructible Visual Basic code!

If you're a Visual Basic professional who demands excellence, here's a start-to-finish plan for achieving it. In Visual Basic 6: Error Coding and Layering, Tyson Gill introduces innovative, fully integrated technical and management strategies for dramatically improving the results of any Visual Basic 6 project.

Understand the "smart coding triangle"-and how to create safe coding frameworks that lead to error-resistant code. Discover new ways to anticipate and prevent errors; then master over 20 valuable error-coding techniques. Architect your software to avoid key causes of failure and learn layered techniques that simplify debugging and maintenance.

Visual Basic 6: Error Coding and Layering also delivers the industry's most powerful Visual Basic project management strategies-from smart coding teams to hyper-libraries to adaptive development. Whether you're a Visual Basic 6 developer, analyst, or manager, this is your single source for everything it takes to deliver outstanding software!

From the Inside Flap

PREFACE Coding Smarter

This book will help you improve the quality and productivity of your software development effort. By the time you finish reading it, you will know how to code smarter and to participate in a team effort to code smarter. You will have a better appreciation of the problems and pitfalls associated with Visual Basic programming and the common causes of project failure. You will also have a clear understanding of how to avoid those problems and to ensure the success of your project in the long term as well as in the short term. This Book Is for You

If you have anything to do with computer programming, this book is for you. Whether you are an analyst, a programmer, a manager, or a related professional, you will find value in this book. Regardless of your experience level, from student to senior developer, this material is at the appropriate level for you. No matter what type of project you are involved in, this book will be applicable.

The scope of this book is broad, from general philosophies to specific lines of code. While many of the general approaches and attitudes presented in this book hold true no matter in what language you are developing, the specific problems and solutions detailed in this book are designed for Visual Basic development.

This is not another "learn Visual Basic" book. It does not simply rephrase and repackage information found in help files and computer books. It presents new and uniquely valuable strategies to overcome coding problems that plague virtually all Visual Basic programs. While it is not a programming book, it does teach programming techniques. It deals with the process of Visual Basic programming as opposed to the language details.

While this is not a management book, it does discuss management issues. While it is not a book about testing, it does deal with testing issues. In short, this book covers all the topics that are vital to a successful team program development effort. It sets an ambitious new standard of excellence for Visual Basic applications, and provides simple (and, in retrospect, obvious) techniques for achieving that new standard of productivity and quality.

This is not a neutral book detailing a specific technology or documenting the latest API or object model. On the contrary, it is a passionate book dealing with both technical and nontechnical issues. Sometimes, it may hit close to home. It may expose flaws in the attitudes and techniques that you may have been using for years. If it does, it will have succeeded in half its mission. If it succeeds in showing you how to overcome those flaws, then it will have succeeded completely. Getting the Most from This Book

To get the greatest benefit from this book, it is essential that you read it straight through as though you were reading a novel. If you are used to reading technical books by browsing the contents or index and jumping from topic to topic, that approach will not work. Both the conceptual and the practical ideas build progressively through the course of the book, each flowing from previous material. Like a novel, it builds to a climax, at which point you may wonder how you can possibly improve your coding practice in spite of all the formidable antagonists. In the end, it reaches resolution, however, and shows you how you can overcome all obstacles by adopting relatively simple coding approaches.

It is also recommended that you read it at least twice. During the first reading, you may come across suggestions that you question. That is good, but file them away and continue reading. Then go back and read it again. Suggestions that you might reject or question during the first reading may seem more appealing after you see how they fit into the complete picture. During the second reading, you can selectively incorporate the suggestions into your own work, adapting them if necessary to your particular situation. Acknowledgments

Thanks to J. Kevin Meadows, Ed Stegman, Edward Michelic, Marcie Gill, and Bill Munro for reviewing the manuscript. Thanks also to David Johnson for contributing illustrations. A big group thanks to the entire staff at WinResources for their support and encouragement. Finally, thanks to Waterside Productions and Prentice Hall for making this book a reality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0130172278
• ISBN 13: 9780130172273
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260