ActiveX and VBScript
This book is a solid and detailed tutorial on VBScript and how to use it within an ActiveX browser environment. The authors ease you into the subject with simple projects that introduce VBScript, the ActiveX Control Pad (Microsoft's free visual tool for adding ActiveX controls to Web pages), and basic manipulation of HTML and browser objects through VBScript. Detailed chapters cover datatypes, variables, operators, events, string manipulation, functions, loops, and single- and multi-dimensional arrays. The author illustrates the discussion with examples covering many common uses for VBScript, including data validation and manipulation of HTML objects. ActiveX is an umbrella term for a series of Microsoft products and technologies that add activity to Web pages. Visual Basic Script is an essential element of the ActiveX family. With it, animation, multimedia, sound, graphics, and interactivity can be added to a Web site.
- Cost: $4.98
- Pages: 450
- Edition: Book and CD edition
- ISBN: 1575212072
Comprehensive Guide to VBScript
Covers every feature and command in VBScript. Includes a description, command, syntax, variables, and uses and cautions for each entry. Explains common Internet programming concepts and acronyms. Covers all VBScript and HTML 3.2 commands and all standard ActiveX controls. Features A to Z listings for quick easy reference. Includes practical examples for every entry. Richard Mansfield is the author of the Visual InterDev 6 Bible, Visual Studio 6 For Dummies, and many other computer books. He is the former editor of Computer magazine. Richard Mansfield has authored more than 30 computer books since 1982. This book can assist anyone from the beginner to the accomplished professional programmer. If you already know Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VBScript will be very familiar. Even if you do not know Visual Basic, once you learn VBScript, you are on your way to programming with the whole family of Visual Basic languages.
- Cost: $9.99
- Pages: 864
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1566044707
Developing Web Applications
Written by two well-known and respected Microsoft insiders, this book is essential for today's VB developer who is tasked with building enterprise-level Web applications using the core .NET technologies –– ASP.NET and VB.NET. After a brief overview of the .NET technologies, they launch right into practical information on how to be immediately productive within ASP.NET from an experienced VB programmer's point of view. They also walk you through an enterprise prototype application that accesses an enhanced version of Microsoft's NorthWind Database. They arm you with tips, tricks, and workarounds that can be used in your own projects, including: Changes to ASP.NET development; Object-oriented changes and enhancements to VB.NET; Using DHTML and server-side controls; ASP.NET Pages and Web forms; Page navigation, validation, data access, and client-event handling using ASP.NET WebControls; Creating and testing Web services.
- Cost: $40.00
- Pages: 400
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0471085170
Enterprise Application Architecture
While there are many books that consider some portion or another of the enterprise, there few if any that address the enterprise as a whole while still providing the technical details developers and integration teams require for real-world execution and delivery. The information required to stitch together the components essential for an enterprise system can only be found scattered across several manuals that span many disciplines. Managers and developers need a clear vision of what constitutes an enterprise system. This book is designed to consider the problem of delivering an enterprise as a whole. It covers hardware from a developer's perspective. It provides installation and configuration instructions for Windows NT Cluster server and the Back Office suite of servers. Then it expands upon and improves the Professional Visual Basic 5.0 Object methodology. This book is about delivering professional Enterprise systems in Visual Basic 6.
- Cost: $59.99
- Pages: 787
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1861002580
Enterprise Application Architecture
This book is about delivering professional Enterprise systems in Visual Basic 6, beginning where Professional VB5/6 Business Objects left off. It offers a sophisticated response to the Business Objects book, and takes the dialog further. It also offers an aware response to the techno-political situation at the Enterprise level for Visual Basic. By definition, the task of delivering an enterprise is a huge undertaking. Microsoft's enterprise offerings have evolved to the point where they pose a serious threat to existing enterprise level platforms. Microsoft's promised lower total cost of ownership is driving many companies to replace at least a portion of their enterprise systems with Windows NT Enterprise Server and Back Office suite of servers. While there are many books that consider some portion or another of the enterprise, there few if any that address the enterprise as a whole while still providing the technical details developers require.
- Cost: $53.99
- Pages: 786
- Edition: e-book (Acrobat Reader)
- ISBN: B000063N9Q
How to Program Visual Basic
A suitable primer for beginning programmers, this book uses a full-color approach, expedites the learning process, reflects the graphical nature of the Web environment, and mimics the look and feel of modern coding tools. The CD contains all the source code in the book, plus examples of Visual Basic, Scripting Edition implementations. Visual Basic Scripting Edition (also known as VBScript) is a subset of the Microsoft Visual Basic language. It is implemented as a fast, portable, lightweight interpreter for use in World Wide Web browsers and other applications that use ActiveX Controls, OLE Automation servers, and Java applets. When used in Internet Explorer, VBScript is directly comparable to JavaScript (not Java). Like JavaScript, VBScript is a pure interpreter that processes source code embedded directly in the HTML. This is a basic-level book for beginners without ANY programming experience.
- Cost: $3.82
- Pages: 323
- Edition: Book and CD edition
- ISBN: 1562764799
Introducing VBScript and ActiveX
Visual Basic programmers and Internet programmers will be especially happy to meet VBScript and ActiveX. The former can leverage the expertise they've gained with Microsoft's industry-standard software development tool to create powerful, sophisticated Web sites and Internet applications. The latter can add new, advanced development tools to the HTML, Java, JavaScript, and CGI scripting languages already at their disposal. In Introducing VBScript and ActiveX, computing and Internet experts Kenneth L. Spencer, Kenneth C. Miller, and Lauren Lassesen pool their knowledge to bring you a concise and thorough guide to these new tools. On the client side, you'll discover how to work the levers behind the curtains of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, while on the server side you'll find out how to use Microsoft's Internet Information Server APIs as well as the Internet Database Connector to link SQL Server and Access databases to Web pages.
- Cost: $15.31
- Pages: 343
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0764580108
Learn Microsoft VBScript
Now you can be on your way to becoming a VBScript guru in just one weekend! You'll begin on Friday with an introduction to VBScript and will learn how it compares to other languages within the Visual Basic programming family. On Saturday, you'll begin learning syntax, basic programming statements, and Web page tricks. On Sunday, you'll learn how VBScript works with the Windows Script Host and XML and the details of working with files and folders. Pull your new skills together Sunday evening as you learn how to automate Windows tasks. Introduces the basic syntax and statements of the VBScript programming language and how to integrate VBScripts into HTML pages to add interactivity to a web site. The series of seven tutorials also discusses validating HTML forms and combining VBScripts with the Windows Script Host (WSH) to automate complex and repetitive system tasks. Learn Microsoft VBScript In a Weekend with this introduction.
- Cost: $29.99
- Pages: 350
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1931841705
Learning VBScript
In Learning VBScript, Paul Lomax shows how to take full advantage of client-side scripting using Microsoft''s own scripting language, Visual Basic Scripting Edition, or VBScript. Learning VBScript consists of three distinct sections that quickly teach the reader how take advantage of client-side scripting to enhance a Web site''s pages: A fast-paced introduction to VBScript that covers the basic features of the language and their syntax. Although these tutorial chapters are written primarily for Web content providers, they also explore the difference between VBScript and Visual Basic for Applications, the programming language used both in Visual Basic and in the individual components of Microsoft Office, making them of interest to the millions of VBA programmers who are fairly new to the Web and to developing Web pages. The book also includes an introduction to the Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) object model.
- Cost: $27.97
- Pages: 614
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 1565922476
Microsoft Visual Basic Reference
The first of the three volumes in this box set, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Language Reference compiles all the language features of today's Visual Basic, from basic data types and built-in control types (their methods, properties, and events) to advanced material (such as conditional compilation directives). The second volume, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Component Tools Guide, isn't a dictionary, but an in-depth, useful tutorial to Visual Basic programming--and even to deploying ActiveX components, the technological heart of Visual Basic. The last volume of the set, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Controls Reference, returns to reference mode with a convenient listing of the properties, events, and methods for more than two dozen standard Visual Basic controls, from user interface objects such as grids, list, and tree views to Internet transfer controls and those that provide database access.
- Cost: $55.99
- Pages: 3245
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1572318643
