Professional Visual Basic 6 W Eb Programming

I rated this 5 stars because it has the most useful writeup on writing Server Components in VB for use with ASP - chapters 9-11. I wanted to do this and had trouble getting working samples and explanations. I feel that industrial strength ASP is very ugly and unweildy if you don't encapsulate the code into components. MSDN has lots of reference material about this but little, if any, useful "how to" stuff that i could find.This book showed me how to do exactly what i wanted to do.Other than that, it is a good introduction into a good number of web concepts, old and new. The first 3 chapters were a good overview of Microsoft web concepts and techniques. The writeup on web classes, if you like them, is good. I really liked the CGI case study including how to implement standard input/output via the win32 API.The relatively free use of various win32 API functions in VB help overcome a general fear of mixing VB and CC++ functionality. The book was a bit large but was well organized. In general it gave me a much higher opinion of Wrox books.

I think this book is the mother of all web programming books. It covers so much that by the end you really *can* program for the web in many different ways using many different tools. Hell, there's even a javascript and CGI tutorial in the appendices. I've read many books and it has to be a really good one for me to write a review of it! If you want to extend your VB skills into some creative web-development then this book is for you! Readers should have a firm grasp of VB itself and OOP programming. This book is always on the top of the pile!

I wrote a review of VB6 Web four months ago, and have since gained a greater appreciation of the book. I was frustrated that it didn't have more WebClass material. I've realized I can't really fault it for that - WebClasses are very new, and nobody has much material on the subject. I've since gone through a book specifically on WebClasses, and it didn't really give much more basic information on the subject than VB6 Web did.I've come to appreciate VB6 Web as a comprehensive reference on web programming in Visual Basic. The web development company where I now work uses VB6 Web as an essential reference in our weekly technology study sessions.

Having purchased many other WROX books, I was eagerly awaiting this one for a current project. When it arrived I read through it like a mad man. Soaking up everything I possibly could. The examples are very clear and there are plenty of them! It covers everything from IIS, ASP and ADO to RDS, SQL, DHTML, MTS and WebClasses. All in one book! Plenty of examples with detailed descriptions and tables explaining the various methods for each function. I definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about using VB6 for web development.

This book covers it all. I was looking for a book the thoroughly covered VB IIS Applications. I found only 2, each dedicating only 1 chapter to the subject. This book not only covers IIS Applications in detail, it also covers DHTML apps in detail as well. It also shows how to incorporate MTS, MSMQ, ADO and other technologies into your VB web apps. A highly detailed chapter on ASP, 4 well thought out case studies and appendixes including HTML Tags, VBScript and Jscript Tutorials, VBScript Reference, Configuring IIS4, ADO, MTS and MSMQ among others completes this book. An absolute MUST for any serious VB Programmer doing any kind of web development.