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.

Designed to be relevant to the first time programmer as well as those adept in the use of Visual Basic, this book is broken into four sections, which set the scene and introduce the tools and techniques, including the advanced features.

Simple, user-friendly and well-written, this book is designed for those who are learning Visual Basic for the first time. This book guides readers through the steps involved in creating a simple application and covers various issues such as Interface Design, Database Design, Distributing an Application, etc. It also demystifies topics like ActiveX and adopts a simple, easy-to-follow approach throughout the book.

Learn how to how to use C# for Internet programming with the hands-on techniques and clear explanations. This book discusses some C# features that allow rapid development of solutions such as garbage collection, simplified type declarations, and scalability support. The book explains key concepts in a simple and practical manner. Web Forms and Web Controls usher in an elegant way to make dynamic Web pages. The book covers these topics with how-to code examples and projects. One of the newest developments in Internet programming is the use of XML and the SOAP communication protocol. .NET Web Services harness these two technologies, and is covered in later sections of the book.

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This text has been updated to cover Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft's Internet Transfer Control 5. It includes a discussion of VB Script 2.0. The work also covers debugging, on-line help and error-trapping