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Title: Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects by Rockford Lhotka, Rocky Lhotka ISBN: 186100107X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07
Rating: 4
Summary: Well written - Be careful with concept overload
Comment: I've read computer books for programmers for at least 12 years. Lhokta is probably the best organized computer book author I've ever read. Wrox always uses presentation style and format to produce excellent books, and Lhotka's writing style is perfect for introducing concepts in an organized way to begginners and people who don't want the first 6 or 7 chapters of a business-oriented VB book to be filled with elementary stuff. Therefore, they complement each other. However, Lhotka seems to be an OOP purist, and by structuring the material the way he does, you get a sense of concept overload, particularly on the first six chapters which deal with the basics of n-tiered architectures, (D)COM itself, and business object analysis. I sense he wants to discipline the reader into not following sloppy coding habits, about which VB is quite forgiving. The examples are excellent, and the respective chapters are compact: if you want to develop, say, an IIS application, all details for structuring it as well as developing an app interface are right there. Very rarely do you have to go back and forth. (That can't really be said about the first four introductory chapters, but he'll go over each concept mentioned in passing later on... so that you don't get lost in a quagmire...)
This is a very good book for an intermediate VB programmer, as well as a good reference for advanced ones.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't leave home without it!
Comment: Another fantastic Wrox book! I have already used Rocky's design principles in a 4 tier Web application and they are already reaping the dividends (literally!). Rocky doesn't just copy out examples from the MSDN - he actually explains in great detail HOW to design a working application outlining the pitfalls on the way. Rocky guides the reader through the basic principles all the way to a full blown 3/4 tier working development using different front ends, while explaining the limitations and power of Microsoft's DNA paradigm. You will learn and understand the principles faster by actually going through the examples and using the VB debugger rather than leaving it for bedtime reading. It takes a little longer to develop an app using components but the rewards come in the reduced maintenance costs, multiple front ends without re-code and the scalability of your solutions. No more maintenance budget gobbling code monsters!!
Not really for the beginner programmer though - too much melon twisting!
Thanks Rocky!
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have for any serious VB developer
Comment: If you don't have this or the previous book relating specifically to VB5 - get it now ! The author almost manages to clearly explain implementation of the layer model and why you want to in the first place straight off. I must confess, that I got a little lost about two thirds of the way through the book, but soon recovered by actually trying to create my own objects and then referring back to the book. The problems that he explains the solutions to are not always apparent at the time ; I can't really blame the author for that though - far better a solution given to a problem you are not yet aware of, than none at all. Overall this is the most valuable book on VB and indeed object technology in the real world I have ever read. My own companies applications are now heavily based around these techniques - modified and improved somewhat to increase flexibility but in reality we only needed to change his concepts by about 5 or 10%. Well, you have to have something to do as a programmer...
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic 6 Objects by Peter Wright ISBN: 186100172X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Databases by Charles Williams ISBN: 1861002025 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Developing Applications with Visual Basic and UML The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Paul R. Reed Jr., Francesco Balena, Grady Booch ISBN: 0201615797 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Distributed Objects by Rockford Lhotka ISBN: 1861002076 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference by David Sussman ISBN: 186100463X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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