Doing Objects in Microsoft Visual Basic 6

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For an approachable guide to software design and new Visual Basic 6 features, take a look at Deborah Kurata's Doing Objects in Visual Basic 6, a guide to what's best in today's Visual Basic.

The book begins with a clear explanation of basic object-oriented concepts, as well as a listing of new Visual Basic 6 features. The first half of the book presents Kurata's Goals, User Interface, Implementation, Data Design, Strategies (GUIDS) software design process. First she defines project requirements, including project scheduling; and then she shows the importance of looking at goals, which leads to defining user scenarios and the objects for a system. Designing the user interface comes next, with attention to menus and form design. Implementation issues follow, including a discussion of today's multitiered system architectures. Next come sections on data design, with database tables. Finally, the design process looks at strategies for actually coding a project. (Here, advice on such topics as naming conventions and error handling will help you write more maintainable Visual Basic code.)

The second half of the book looks at how to build programs with Visual Basic and how to begin with class design (with twelve common questions about classes), including information on persistence and using collections. More detail on the inner workings of Visual Basic class interfaces and ActiveX follows. The author presents a simple ActiveX control and surveys support for database and Internet programming in Visual Basic.

The finished product in this straightforward and intelligent text is a contact management system, which uses a three-tiered data architecture. Overall, this book makes sophisticated object-oriented programming techniques accessible for today's Visual Basic 6 developers. --Richard Dragan

Book Description
Deborah Kurata's Doing Object in Visual Basic 6 provides a foundation for object-oriented design (OOD) by describing fundamental concepts and features of Visual Basic that support these concepts. For each design, this guide takes you step-by-step through a case study. Doings Objects in Visual Basic 6 shows you how to build ActiveX EXEs, ActiveX DLLs and ActiveX controls, how to create database objects using the universal data access strategy, OLE DB, and ADO. It details how to use the new Data View window, the new Data Environment designer, access a database using ADO, the new CallByName function, build data-aware classes, and use the new data binding features. Also find how to create three-tiered, object-oriented database applications using these new technologies and pull all that you've learned together into a functioning application.

Synopsis
Award-winning author Deborah Kurata focuses on the technical aspects of developing objects and covers the Internet and database programming aspects of the new edition of Visual Basic. This revised edition will publish day and date with VB's new version, due out this summer.

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