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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Distributed Objects by Rockford Lhotka ISBN: 1-86100-207-6 Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book about distributed apps with VB and COM/MTS
Comment: Lhotka goes straight to the important matter about this topic: solid arquitecture, UI and data centered business objects, and passing object state across networks. He does not waste time with no-sense XML/CSS, Interdev and other useless "fashionable" stuff. He takes care of the real critical issues when developing distributed apps. I have been programming distributed apps for the last 3 years using several techniques & technologies (DCOM, MTS, TCP-IP, LU62, etc) and I really appreciate this book; it's full of substance. I use a very different approach than the one proposed by Lhotka (because I use direct Winsock connections with a custom AppServer), but I found this book very usefull to compare against my particular framework and to extract some nice ideas. If I were to program with DCOM/MTS/MSMQ, I would use Lhotka's framework and this book would be a definitive guide. It's full of very intelligent and practical concepts. Don't waste your money & time in other books about this topic. This is the one you need.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book, I would highly recommend it!
Comment: I had read most the the original VB6 Business Objects book and liked the content but didn't like the way object state was handled. This book takes the original concept and builds on it to a point that you can make some very nice reusable, scalable objects.
This is a must for any serious VB object developer.
Rating: 3
Summary: Excellent book that precurses terrible applications.
Comment: Okay, so this is an excellent book. I am a distributed applications expert and I am very familiar with several distributed architectures. I even had the opportunity to sit down in a private meeting with the author to learn and discuss his ideas. The first thing I would like to say is that Rocky's CSLA architecture is by far one of the most rock solid systems I have seen today...
BUT...
People are implementing this in horrible horrible ways. I now pretty much have a career of going around to various companies and correcting the awful implementations of the CSLA arhcitecture. The problem? Programmers are implementing distributed architectures in applications that don't need them. Often, total beginners are using this advanced architecture to build tiny little webpage apps that would work fine with traditional approaches.
If you are an experienced programmer, needing guidance on the development of a MASSIVELY scalable application with thousands of users, then this is the book for you. If you are beginner or intermediate programmer wanting to implement this architecture in some little project just for the sake of saying you made a distributed application, keep doing it!!! I need the money!
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic 6 Objects by Peter Wright ISBN: 186100172X Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Databases by Charles Williams ISBN: 1861002025 Publisher: Peer Information Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6: The 2003 Programmer's Resource by Jerry Alban, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Steven Livingstone-Perez, Ryan Payet, Larry Steinle, Kent Tegels, Rick Weyenberg, Vincent Varallo, Donald Xie ISBN: 186100818X Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects by Rockford Lhotka ISBN: 1590591453 Publisher: Apress Pub. Date: 11 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: VB COM by Thomas Lewis ISBN: 1861002130 Publisher: Peer Information Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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