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Title: Visual Basic(r) 6.0 Internet Programming by Carl Franklin ISBN: 0-471-31498-6 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 26 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.13 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!!!! Carl is a true professional!
Comment: What is the most annoying thing? Buying a book and finding out it is over your head or filled with simple procedures you learned back in VB 101. Not here.... take a look....
Carl wrote an excellent teaching aid while learning VB6 w/ the internet. I am disturbed by the previous critiques, Carl not only offered a 3rd Party Socket control for those who wanted a quicker solution without getting dirty in the nitty gritty, but he also went above and beyond covering my favorite WinSOCK. In fact, he provides a FULL library of utilities, most common errors you will receive and the RFC's. SMTP, POP3, NNTP, it's all here! If you are even considering creating your own email program and don't have a clue as to what I've mentioned, START HERE.
The examples and FULL SOURCE code he supplies was documented and written WELL. He did not skimp on comments within the source code which you can easily modify and compile into your own .DLL, thus including it your application.
This book has saved MONEY if you consider what books cost. The book may look thin, but it offers more information on books twice it's size. There is no....try this or try that....it's....this is how you do it... a relaxing and refreshing approach.
Looking for sending/receiving email? Even a newsreader? How about FTP? If this doesn't entice you, take another step, because Carl teaches you how to send/receive arrays via the internet! Create that client/server program for your company, easily!!!
Before I end this..... after having a problem unrelated to his actual code, I took a stab and emailed Carl asking him a question. Within five minutes, he replied, with suggestions AND another utility!
Thank you Carl! I will be purchasing your next book, and eagerly add it to my collection!
Rating: 4
Summary: Slightly dated, but great book with added bonus software
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: I thought the book was great!!
Comment: 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...
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Title: Internet Programming With VB by Budi Kurniawan ISBN: 1893115755 Publisher: Apress Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and IIS (Visual Basic Developer's Guides) by A. Russell Jones ISBN: 0782125573 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Mps) by Ltd Mandelbrot Set International ISBN: 1572318937 Publisher: Microsoft Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Web Programming by Jerry Ablan, Charles Crawford, Jr. Caison, Matt Brown, Dwayne Gifford, Pierre Boutquin, Paul Wilton, Mark Harrison, Jeffrey Hasan, Matthew Reynolds, Dimitriy Sloshberg ISBN: 186100222X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic by James D. Foxall ISBN: 0735607338 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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