Visual Basic Internet Programming

by Carl Franklin

Cutting-edge software developer and leading Visual Basic columnist Carl Franklin arms you with the knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques you need to add Internet capabilities to your Windows(r) and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471134201
• ISBN13: 9780471134206
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

good book

Good book! why? because: 1. It does not have a bunch of garbage about internet history or theoretical background. 2. Very enjoyable and have good humor. 3. Now I know and I can use: Gopher,UseNet,e-mail, FTP, and WWW. 4. I haven't got to chp 7 yet. A bit dense here. OverAll: good and have good web site too.

In depth how to for programming in VB4 for the internet.

Written by one of the two author's of Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page (a premier site for all things Visual Basic). This is an in depth look at how to program anything for the Internet. However, rather than the usual how to put up your own home page drivel coming from most authors, Carl instructs you how to set up E-Mail Apps, FTP Apps, as well as Gopher, Usenet, etc. If you need to learn how to do it, Carl tells you. Additionally, he instructs the reader in the various protocols, including Windows sockets, TCP/IP, and HTTP. As if that wasn't enough he has also included a CD-ROM with sample (working) apps that demonstrate all the techniques in the book. This was written for Visual Basic version 4, so his apps work to that end. Including an OLE based format. A must have for all VB programmers.

Good book with one caveat

My primary interest in buying this book was to learn how to write an effective FTP application for my personal use at home and work. I found the material to be clearly presented and the sample FTP program functional. To his credit, the author also supports fixes to the code on his web page. However, the book relies on the use of a custom control for Winsock which, although supplied in demo form on the accompaning CD-ROM, costs an additional $99 dollars if you really want to write any code for distribution. The author states that VB will be too slow to use without that custom control. The problem is that I would have preferred to learn stand-alone code at this point rather than depend on that control. If I had known I would be so dependant on it, I would have rather spent the money on a licensed copy of WS_FTP

Well written Internet programming book for VB 4.0

This book is well written in that it provides a good mix of conceptual and hands-on material for the intermediate level Visual Basic programmer. With this book, you can master the capabilities of writing Internet-enabled applications. We will now be able to integrate FTP and HTTP into our back-office applications in order to further integrate the public Web server with our business processes. I also look forward to being able to implement internet e-mail capabilities into my visual basic applications. The book also comes with a CDROM full of useful and reusable code. I strongly recommend this to any VB programmer