Visual Basic(r) 6.0 Internet Programming
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: 1999-02-26 Sales Rank: 817879 ISBN / ASIN: 0471314986 EAN: 9780471314981 Binding: Paperback Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Studio: John Wiley & Sons Average Rating: 3
Expert guidance, programming tips, and plenty of real code examples.
Visual Basic programmers, here's your chance to quickly master the knowledge and skills you need to give your Windows and NT applications sophisticated Internet utilities, components, and applets. With the help of a series of progressively complex programming examples-complete with sample code-Carl Franklin covers all the bases, from TCP/IP basics to advanced techniques for taking full advantage of version 6.0's hot new Internet programming features. Step-by-step, he schools you in:* VB Internet tools, techniques, and software components.* Programming popular Internetprotocols with WinSock Tools.* Writing server-based objects using apartment threading, the new VB object model.* Creating IIS Applications in VB 6.0.* Using VB 6.0's powerful new compiler to quickly create super-fast programs.
The CD-ROM supplies you with:* Plug-in Visual Basic networking components.* Customizable Internet client programs.* Server-side CGI tools for easy database access.* Tons of useful sample code.
Date: 2004-03-09 Rating: 4Review: Slightly dated, but great book with added bonus software
Visual Basic(r) 6.0 Internet Programming by Carl Franklin was published in 1998, so while it does not cover all the latest technology since 1998, it still remains completly applicable to it's target audience: VisualBasic 6 developers and Programmers. If you have already moved on to C-Sharp or VB.NET, then this book is not for you. (You might get a little jealous of the lean-and-mean code in there.)
I found this book to be very easy to read and all samples were well documented. While the samples in this book used the Dolphin Winsock OCX, the applications on the included CD-ROM also include versions for the Microsoft Winsock OCX that shipped with VisualBasic PROFESSIONAL and ENTERPRISE versions. For Visual Basic Programmers who only have the BEGINNER Version or the (Free) CCE Edition, a third party Winsock OCX makes perfect sense and the code is easily ported to any similar control with minimal effort. (The free Catalyst Socketwrench Winsock control, for example.)
This book also provides a very nice explanation (with working samples) of the common Internet Protocols (FTP, HTTP, NTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP) directly into terms for a Visualbasic Programmer, as well as how to do basic CGI in VisualBasic for any Windows Server and how to marry VisualBasic to the (still current) Microsoft IIS Servers.
I can certainly recommend this book to Visualbasic 5 and 6 Programmers at the Intermediete level or higher. Even an expert will enjoy this book.
Date: 2004-01-20 Rating: 5Review: I thought the book was great!!
I always heard alot about Winsock programming but never got the big picture until I read Gary Frankin's book. If I wanted to write Winsock applications from scratch, and had a lot of time to work on it, I might trying writing them using Windows API's...
But, I don't want to make a career out of Winsock programming. My primary goal was to have two computers communicate over a facilities Ethernet network. This book showed me how to do that. I can even do it over the Internet now. I think that's great stuff.
So, yes, Gary does teach the use of a third party ocx: dsSocket TCP/IP Custom Control by Dolphin Systems at a cost of $99 http://www.dolphinsys.com/dssocket.htm . But there are others equally expensive: Socket/x by Mabry Software at a cost of $179. https://www.mabry.com/socketx/index.htm . As a programmer, if using a third party ocx saves me 3 hours of programming time, it's worth it... And, these ocx's will save you more time than that.
This book isn't about ASP & website programming like so many others are, here you'll learn how to get computers to communicate on networks. I recommend this book if this is what you are looking for...
Date: 2001-12-15 Rating: 1Review: Sorry, but this book is not worth any amount of money
I want to learn REAL internet programming. This book relies too much on the dolphin systems dll. It is like telling someone you are going to teach them how to write a browser program, and then having your instruction be "go to microsoft and download IE6. Voila! you have a browser!".
Date: 2001-03-22 Rating: 1Review: Title should read - How to Use a Proprietary Control in VB6
Not what I expected at all. The first part of the book was okay - the history and building of the internet. The rest of the book - including sample code - was a discussion of how to use the control the writer created. If you want to spend another $300 to be able to do your own FTP application, this is the book for you. That's what it costs to buy the software that will allow the sample code to run.
Date: 2001-03-21 Rating: 1Review: A Good background but based on proprietary VB control
The book gave a great backgroung to FTP, "user-unfriendly" terms, buzzwords. Unfortunately, if you are looking for code that will assist you in developing your own application this may NOT be for you...
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