High Performance Visual Basic 6 Object-Oriented Programming [With Contains ActiveX Add-Ins, Text Editor, Controls...]

by Purshottam Chandak, Ramesh Chandak, Steve Alvarez, et al.

This book will help the reader master VisualBasic's most important features for object oriented applications. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576102556
• ISBN13: 9781576102558
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excelent book on Object-Oriented Programming

This book gave me an ability to understand principles of OOP as they are presented in MS Visual Basic. It was a different experience from what I knew and used in everyday practice as Java Programmer. Also, this was the only book that I could find that would use normal, useful examples.

Excellent Foundation on Object Analysis

This book very well covers a complete foundation of Visual Basic 6.0 objects paramount to consider oneself a proficient VB architect. It starts with the basics: abstraction, polymorphism, and inheritance, and how these relate to the ActiveX/COM programming paradigm. Best practices of object design are instilled in the early chapters of the book-practices such as relational modeling and interface design. The author illustrates the usage of the many built-in wizard tools that come with VB 6.0. Object lifetime events are thoroughly explained. An example of creating a custom, type-checked collection class is provided. Advanced error trapping and recovery are covered in-depth. The later half of the book puts these foundational concepts to use when developing ActiveX components. Examples show how to link a help file to an ActiveX control. And finally, a chapter dedicated to the practice of encapsulating the Win32 API in custom-built ActiveX components is given. Overall, I would recommend this textbook to my Visual Basic students.

VB's is presented as a tool for OOP and COM.

The back cover subtitles this book as an "Authoritative Guide to Visual Basic 6's Most Powerful Features." This suggests an advanced programmer's handbook, a sequel to "VB in 31 Days" perhaps; and the book is not that.Instead, it is a well-written explanation on how to develop with Visual Basic to fit into the world of OOP, COM, and three-tier client/server. This book is more for system architects and designers than for programmers. If you have a strong interest in OOP concepts and prior understanding of VB syntax and tools, this book will help you evaluate VB for conformance to the latest software fashions. The book is one of seven in my library on VB, and I thoroughly enjoyed it after prior extensive reading of the OOP gurus. Who would ever have thought that BASIC would come to this!A better subtitle would have been "Grady Booch Meets Bill Gates." If you don't know both these names, you might want to stay away.