Product Description: Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you...read more

Product Description: Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you...read more

Product Description: Rockford Lhotka started writing his Business Objects books in 1996, and over the years, he’s become one of the world's foremost authorities on building distributed object-oriented systems. This second edition of his industry-standard VB ...read more

Product Description: Rockford Lhotka started writing his Business Objects books in 1996, and over the years, he’s become one of the world’s foremost authorities on building distributed object-oriented systems. His industry-standard VB .NET Business Objects book not only addresses changes in ...read more

Product Description: Visual Basic .NET has changed dramatically from its predecessor, and this book shows developers how to build traditional console applications, ASP.NET applications, XML Web Services, and moreThe top-notch author team shares their years of experience in VB programming and helps readers take their skills to new heightsAddresses issues such as security, data access (ADO...read more

Product Description: This book is a translation of Rockford Lhotka's industry-standard title Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects into C# language. Lhotka's ideas remain extremely influential in .NET development, and this book translates those ideas directly to you, the C# programmer...read more

Product Description: What is this book about?Microsoft considers Visual Basic.NET to be the language of choice for applications where developer productivity is a top priority. It offers you the ability to program against the .NET Framework, and the most recent version includes tools for programming today’s hot mobile applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the late 1990s, author Rockford Lhotka wrote extensively on creating distributed, object-oriented Windows applications using Visual Basic 6, COM, and DCOM. The introduction of .NET has motivated him to revisit these themes and revise his strategy...read more

Amazon.com Review: Aimed at the Visual Basic 6 programmer turning to .NET for the first time, Fast Track Visual Basic .NET provides a worthy, fast-paced introduction to the features and APIs working developers need to get started with VB .NET. The salient feature of this book is its compact size and fast-moving yet approachable tutorial to the new version of Visual Basic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Covers COM interoperability in detail, and broadens the focus to examine a range of issues that must be handled in order for VB6 and COM code to run on .NET. Aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who need to make COM and VB6 code interoperate with the new ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers a preview of Visual Basic programming for .NET--Microsoft's visionary development environment for the Web.

Product Description: Building distributed web applications is a wide-ranging topic, covering a variety of technologies and techniques. Windows DNA is the name given to the combination of traditional n-tier architecture with the intrinsic Windows 2000 services, including COM+, MSMQ, and Active Directory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Visual Basic is the leading Windows development tool with 3-4 million licenses sold. Many VB developers face the challenge of building scalable applications using distributed COM objects in Visual Basic 6. There are many books which describe n-tier architecture and also object-oriented programming, but this book is about merging the best capabilities of the Object-Oriented (OO) approach with your system architecture...read more

Product Description: This book is aimed at experienced application developers, who have developed applications in Windows using Visual Basic. It will also appeal to intermediate-level programmers because it presents components and techniques that can easily be integrated into their applications. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years, the concept of "business objects" has taken hold in the developer community. Basically, these are the processes that deal with some input data and mediate the appropriate business response. These pages show how Visual Basic is a great tool to implement such a system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Visual Basic 5 uses much of the same code as previous Visual Basic, so this book does not waste time on introductory Visual Basic programming. Instead, the text starts by explaining how to create OLE servers using the new tools in VB5...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)