Accompanying CD-ROM contains extensive source code samples to enable all techniques without external DLLs. It also provides integrated type library add-ins for creating and editing referenced libraries, modifying binary compatibility files, and customizing the type libraries that VB generated for ActiveX components.
Reselman, a senior software engineer at Gateway 2000, has written an easy-to-use reference format that allows novice users to find information quickly. Web site contains the source code and completed applications from the book.
Visual Basic 6 Unleashed provides comprehensive coverage of the most sought after topics in Visual Basic programming. Visual Basic 6 Unleashed provides a means for a casual level Visual Basic programmer to quickly become productive with the new release of Visual Basic. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive reference to virtually all the topics that are used in today's leading-edge Visual Basic applications. This book looks to take advantage of the past success of the Unleashed series along with the extremely large size of the Visual Basic market.
Advanced Visual Basic 2/e has been updated to reflect changes in the new standard of Visual Basic. The new edition includes extensive coverage of intermediate and advanced custom controls, including the ToolBar, ImageList, CoolBar, StatusBar, ListView, TreeView, MSChart, Winsock, Multimedia, ActiveMovie, and Hierarchical FlexGrid. The book contains complete coverage of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), including ADO Connections, ADO Recordsets, and DataReports. There is a chapter on SQL database queries and updates, as well as on Internet programming, including the Winsock control, dynamic HTML, HTML Help, and the Internet Transfer control. The text also includes two chapters on creating ActiveX DLL components, ActiveX controls, and data-aware ActiveX servers.
This text enables readers to produce commercial-quality programs for practical application, and includes a section devoted to programming concepts for the novice as well as a section aimed at the more advanced user.
1. Web Fundamentals -- 2. Windows DNA: a framework for building applications -- 3. An Overview of Building Windows DNA Applications with Visual Basic -- 4. Client-Side Programming with Visual Basic -- 5. Building Client-Side ActiveX Controls -- 6. Dynamic HTML Applications -- 7. Integrating Web Browsing Using the WebBrowser Objects -- 8. Getting Started By Understanding ASP -- 9. Building Server Components in Visual Basic -- 10. Advanced Visual Basic Server Components -- 11. Interfacing With Server Services in Visual Basic --12. Introducing Webclasses and IIS Applications -- 13. The Fundamentals of IIS Applications -- 14. Advanced Webclass Techniques -- 15. Meet RDS -- 16. A Guide to XML -- Case Study 1. Message Board Part 1 -- Case Study 1. Message Board Part 2 -- Case Study 2. Web Based Document Management -- Case Study 3. DHTML Applications -- Case Study 4. CGI Integration.
Featuring an extensive updated class library of reusable objects, this book offers an in-depth explanation of object-oriented programming (OOP), public interface design, and Visual Basic OOP code construction. The CD-ROM includes example code for each reusable member of the class library and the EFS.HLP file.