Effective Visual Basic: How to Improve Your VB/COM+ Applications

by Ted Pattison, Justin Gehtland, Joe Hummel

Featuring nearly fifty rules for best practice, EFFECTIVE VISUAL BASIC gives the working programmer concrete guidelines for des Featuring nearly fifty rules for best practice, EFFECTIVE VISUAL BASIC... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201704765
• ISBN13: 9780201704761
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Watered down version of the Transactional COM+ Book

This book is a somewhat condensed version of Transactional COM+ by Tim Ewald. However, this book is much better in summarizing (and reinforcing) the important issues when developing VB/COM+/IIS applications as compared to Transactional COM+ which does indulge in gratuitous details too often. Effective Visual Basic is definitely not for beginners, rather, it makes sense only if you've repeatedly wondered why COM+ works the way it does. Rule 3-4 also gives a good understanding of why stateless objects aren't always good. If you ever wondered why Singletons are not good in the COM+ world (or why you cannot stick COM object references into the ASP Session Object) then Rule 3-2 explains it all. This book is a must for anyone designs and implements scaleable COM+ applications. Many of the generic COM+ concepts apply whether you plan to use C++ or VB.

Development does it again

If any of you are familiar with Developmentor you'll understand why this is an excellent book - all of the authors work there. This isn't a book for beginners, but once you get past the fundamentals this book has numerous best practices that will save you a lot of time (ie. if you had to figure them out on your own). This is real world stuff that works - not theory. By the way, the other books I've read in this series are also very good.