Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual Basic 6.0 and MTS

by Jim Maloney

The serious guide to VB6 multi-tier and Web development With Microsofts Visual Basic( 6 release, VB has come of age as an enterprise component development platform. If youre an experienced VB... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130213438
• ISBN13: 9780130213433
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Length: 595 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic book on building distributed systems...

This book is absolutely amazing. It provides a great deal of insight on properly building distributed applications. It deals with 2-tier and 3-tier development; giving you pointers on what and what-not to do.The best part of this book is that there is very little space-filler text or what I would call 'fluff'. Jim gets right to the point and conveys his information without excessive use of word sentences. The wording is very direct and to the point. Great focus!Get this book if you want to understand and learn DCOM programming using VB6.0I personally love Chapter 11 DCOM: Step by Step.

Excellent Book

This is a great book for all VB Distributed App developers. Its clearly written, easily understandable and gets straight to the point.Also the examples are nice and clear - not 100 lines of sample code to demonstrate a simple point, unlike Microsoft help files.Whilst there is a wealth of beginner books there are very few good books beyond this level - but this is one of them.If you have a year of more VB experience and you develop distributed apps then buy this book.

This is a GREAT book!

This is a great book, mostly due to the amount of code examples that it has. With most of the advanced Visual Basic books that I've used, I often have to go look up additional information in help, only to find he exact same information there, too. The silly "hello, world" demos included with these books are not real-world enough for me and still leave me wondering how to apply the concepts to my application. I've never seen any of the demos from this book anywhere else, and they are mostly all excellent. This book has its share of "hello, world" demos too, but they are balanced by some of the best real-world examples I've seen in any other book on programming. It's obvious that the author has actually done this type of programming in real life. I can honestly say that I know exactly how I'll implement my distributed application now that I have this book.

Excellent book - Straight from the source

These guys know there stuff! As a consultant at Microsoft and head of the Windows Developer User Group, I am frequently asked to recommend learning sources, including books and instructor-led training. For distributed COM using VB, this is the answer. The book is based on a course the author wrote for and teaches at UCI Corporation (one of our premier partners - look them up [online]), and thus is also an excellent self-study guide.Congratulations to Jim, UCI, and Prentice Hall!

Most practical book on VB yet!

The CD-ROM that comes with the book has several useful demonstration programs. Plus, there is a fully implemented distributed application that shows examples of handling various scenarios with MTS. This guy is not afraid of bringing up a real-world situation and showing the code to handle it. Great job, great book!