Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5 (Microsoft Programming Series) - Softcover

Morris, Peter; Mandelbrot Set Ltd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572314141 ISBN 13: 9781572314146

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 1997

Synopsis

Written by leading Visual Basic experts, ""Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5"" explores the possibilities open to intermediate and advanced developers using Visual Basic as their primary client/server development tool. The CD-ROM contains complete source code and valuable utilities.

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Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5 is a collection of essays on using Visual Basic (VB) 5 to build enterprise applications--a task that frequently pushes VB past the limits of what it was meant to do. While these essays aren't meant to constitute a VB tutorial, they address many issues that you're likely to run into in when developing large production applications.

Some of the contributions discuss particular types of application functionality. Examples include essays on creating business objects for distributed applications, building Internet applications, and building applications that access data through Data Access Objects (DAOs), Remote Data Objects (RDOs), open database connectivity (ODBC), or DB-Lib. Other essays cover problems that will crop up in almost any application; topics of these essays include how to develop a methodical approach to error handling, suggestions for overall approaches to safe data typing and parameter passing, issues in migrating to VB 5, interface design, approaches to testing and QA, and how to manage large VB development projects. The contributions are detailed, well written, and will be of great interest to anyone working on large commercial projects. The 18 essay contributors are programmers from The Mandelbrot Set, a British development firm long associated with VB and Microsoft's Visual Basic development team. Examples and sample applications from the book are included on the bundled CD-ROM.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572314141
• ISBN 13: 9781572314146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 900