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Visual Basic for Network Applications

  • 1st Edition - December 23, 1997
  • Latest edition
  • Author: SIMON COLLIN
  • Language: English

This book is aimed at Programmers and MIS managers who need to produce network-aware programs with Visual Basic. Most other Visual Basic books say a little about file sharing and… Read more

Description

This book is aimed at Programmers and MIS managers who need to produce network-aware programs with Visual Basic. Most other Visual Basic books say a little about file sharing and so on, but in thin detail and with poor coverage of MAPI and Network DDE/OLE. This is an important area to cover. This book assumes prior knowledge of Visual Basic, but it could be used by any competent C programmer who wants to use Visual Basic to mock up a network application.

Readership

Programmers and MIS managers

Table of contents

Prelims; Intro; Versions of VB; Benefits of VB; Using VB; Development with VB; the environment; run-time libraries; VB function libraries; VBX, OCX, DLL, 3rd-party; Mail functions with MAPI; the MAPI VBX; sending mail; reading mail; a simple mail app.; VB network commands; login/logout; getting user info; getting workstation info; getting o.sys info; server access; printing; locally, to a queue; VB online; dial-up commands; file transfers; linking to a mainframe; a sample comms program; VB on the Internet; TCP/IP protocol support; connections via SLIP; decoding HTML; WinSock with VB; Multiuser considerations; access control; sharing data files; licences - monitoring, enforcing; Network DDE; sharing data between applications; benefits of DDE; problems with DDE; Network OLE; using OLE-2; example application; problems at the workstation; TAPI; overview; basic functions; Advanced programming; using the Windows API; Error handling; Online resources; Glossary; Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 23, 1997
  • Language: English

About the author

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SIMON COLLIN

Affiliations and expertise
Network columnist for PC Magazine and columnist for LAN Magazine and Personal Computer World Magazine