VB COM: VB6 Programmer’s Introduction to COM
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Full Title |
VB COM: VB6 Programmer’s Introduction to COM |
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ISBN |
1861002130 |
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Price |
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Author |
Thomas Lewis |
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Dev Editor |
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Tech Editors |
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Pub Date |
Feb 99 |
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Page Count |
500 |
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N/A |
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Previous Editions |
N/A |
What is the Subject Area?
Com has traditionally been considered as something that VB programmers don’t need to think about too much: VB is supposed to look after all the nitty gritty of COM, leaving the VB programmers to rapidly develop working business solutions. However, with Microsoft pushing hard on its multi-tiered technologies, more and more people are becoming aware that COM is something important. For any moderately advanced VB programming at all, COM is present – often under the guise of ActiveX. COM underlies most of which is going on in VB. COM is components and objects: and there are hundreds of objects and components even in the basic VB environment. So what’s going on? What is COM? Why is it so important? What can VB programmers do with COM? For newcomers to COM, this is all a bit mysterious. For competent but relatively non-technical VB professional programmers, the full story of COM is still somewhat disjointed. Meanwhile, a new type of programming consultant is coming into existence: COM design experts. Why? Because as soon as you start writing professional VB applications, you are making COM decisions (or VB is making them for you), whether it is with ActiveX, MTS, DCOM….. and some of these decisions have real implications for the success of your software design and performance.
What’s Great About this Book?
- Explains why COM is so important to the VB programmer
- A full introduction and explanation of the COM architecture
- Clarifies the actual mechanics of COM when your programs run
- How to be COM-aware within your VB applications
- Use Automation to provide dynamic access to applications
- Explains the relationship between ActiveX and COM
- How to use DCOM to run VB components across a network
- How MTS can provide scalable, multi-user support for VB programs
- What the future may hold for COM and COM+
Who is this book for?
This book is geared towards the Visual Basic programmer who wants to begin discovering the benefits of Microsoft’s Component Object Model (called COM) and how to use COM to build more dynamic applications.
Who is the Author?
Thomas Lewis has been working in the software business for 6 years. He became a Visual Basic programmer when he decided that 3 pages of C++ code to write a Windows-based "Hello World" application was too tedious and wanted a language that solved business scenarios quickly. Starting with Visual Basic 3.0, he set out on building solutions with Visual Basic that involve COM components, Windows DNA applications, and Inet applications. Thomas currently works for Microsoft evangelizing Windows DNA, SQL Server, Visual Basic and COM.
When he's not discussing "distributed applications", he can usually be found either drinking Starbucks coffee or watching the Dallas Stars hockey team.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to COM
Chapter 2: COM Architecture
Chapter 3: Automation
Chapter 4: ActiveX Code Components
Chapter 5: ActiveX Controls
Chapter 6: Distributed COM
Chapter 7: MTS
Chapter 8: The Future of COM
Chapter 9: Not the End. But Merely the Beginning
Appendix A: COM and The System Registry