Excellent Visual Basic book required (COM, MTS, etc)

[HectorTheDog]

Can anyone recommend any excellent Visual Basic 6 books, preferably for advanced programmers. In particular I am looking for texts regarding COM development for ASP, MTS, ADO, plus info on system design, good practice, etc. I would usually turn to Wrox, but I don't rate their efforts in this area.

Thanks

 

[VB400]

Wrox has many books specific to each and every topic you have mentioned above -- I highly recommend them.

If you have a bookstore close by (such as Barnes and Noble), I would suggest that you drop by, browse some of the books they have and see what you take liking to. Most books by all publishers will cover what you need; however, your personal preferences will dictate which books you buy. Different authors/publishers have their own style and not all of them appeal to everyone.

I found that Wrox authors are excellent ... for my needs!


Tarek

The more I learn, the more I need to learn!

 

[HectorTheDog]

Yes - Wrox are generally great. My book shelf is pretty much all Wrox. I've got the "Components for ASP" book. Have you read "Professional Visual Basic 6 MTS Programming"?

 

[Snaggs]

You mentioned Good Practice... I would recommend "Code Complete". If you've been coding for over a year, this book is a must! Read it from cover to cover and don't skip any chapers. Steve McConnell is right on target with this book. Snaggs
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[Guest_imported]

"Professional Visual Basic 6 Business Objects", by Rockford Lhotka. Covers OO in VB, 2-tier - n-tier distributed apps, basic MTS, as well as interface development in VB, MS Office, ASP and VB Web Classes. This is my adopted methodology for distributed apps.

"Developing COM/ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6.0", by Dan Appleman. This is a definitive souce for COM/ActiveX in VB.

Craig Boland
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[Snaggs]

CBoland, YES! That is an excellent book! He has one out that's after that. It's called "Professional Visual BASIC 6 Distrubuted Objects." I have this one and it's excellent too. It goes over Visual Modeler too. Snaggs
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[chiph]

Second (or is "third" by now? ) the recommendation for WROX books. Uniformly excellent. Look for the red spines with (usually) yellow lettering.

Chip H.

 

[swilliams]

How about the MSDN training guides for exams 70-175 and 70-176?? These exams cover COM and MTS quite extensively, but I do not know how in depth the text goes.
Simon

 

[VB400]

Hector,

Sorry for the delayed response! Yes I read most of VB6 MTS programming and I learned quite a bit from it.

CBoland,

Rockford Lhotka's books helped me make the transition to a VB Client/Server developer -- they're awsome books and Rockford is a very helpful guy.

As far as distributed objects, I hear great things about Deborah Kurata's <sp> book &quot;Doing Objects in VB6&quot; or something like that!

Additionally, you can never go wrong with anything from Dan Appleman.
Tarek

The more I learn, the more I need to learn!

 

[HectorTheDog]

Thanks all.

Bought the Wrox VB6 MTS Programming. It is excellent, highly recommended for anyone doing COM programming - hopefully he will update it for COM+.

I have other books on order. I'll let you know how I get on.

Woof Woof

Hector