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| Preface | |
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| The Evolution of Visual Basic | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Deploying a Multi-Tiered Client/Server Application | |
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| Application Architectures | |
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| Deploying the Sample N-Tier Applications | |
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| Using Objects in a Visual Basic Application | |
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| About Objects | |
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| Objects and Visual Basic | |
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| Object Models | |
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| Stateful Objects and Transactions | |
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| Implementing Win32 User Interface Clients | |
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| Using the Mom-n-Pop Video Store Object Model | |
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| Saving Application Settings in the Registry | |
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| Displaying a Splash Screen | |
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| Using Drag and Drop in an Application | |
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| Clipboard Interoperability | |
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| The ListView Control | |
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| The TreeView Control | |
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| The TabStrip Control | |
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| Toolbars and Status Bars | |
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| Status Bars | |
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| About Input Validation in the Presentation Layer | |
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| Using the WinSock Control | |
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| The TCP/IP Protocol | |
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| Using the WinSock Control | |
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| Creating a Server Application | |
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| Creating a Client-Application | |
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| Using the UDP Protocol | |
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| TCP Servers that Handle Multiple Clients | |
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| Database Access with ADO | |
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| ADO and OLE DB | |
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| The ADO Object Model | |
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| The ADO Connection Object | |
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| ADO Command Objects | |
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| Updating Records in a Recordset | |
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| Mom-n-Pop Video Store Case Studies | |
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| Using ADO Data Sources | |
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| Data Environments | |
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| Adding Reporting Capability | |
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| Introducing Class Modules | |
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| About Class Modules | |
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| Using Class Modules | |
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| Implementing an Object Model with ActiveX Components | |
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| About ActiveX Components | |
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| Setting up an ActiveX Component Project | |
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| About Inheritance and Polymorphism | |
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| An ActiveX Component Object Model | |
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| Collections Revisited | |
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| Releasing an ActiveX Component | |
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| COM, DCOM, and ActiveX | |
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| What is COM? | |
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| Threads and Processes | |
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| Creating ActiveX Controls with Visual Basic | |
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| What is an ActiveX Control? | |
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| Creating an ActiveX Control | |
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| The ActiveX Control Interface Wizard | |
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| ActiveX Control Finishing Touches | |
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| Automation Fundamentals | |
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| About Automation | |
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| Creating an Automation Server in Visual Basic | |
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| DCOM Step-by-Step | |
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| About DCOM | |
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| A DCOM Walkthrough | |
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| Troubleshooting DCOM Problems | |
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| Introducing Microsoft Transaction Server | |
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| About MTS | |
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| The MTS API | |
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| Stateful and Stateless MTS Objects | |
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| The MTS Shared Property Manager | |
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| Deploying MTS Servers | |
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| Security and MTS | |
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| Implementing the Data Services Layer with MTS | |
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| Requirements for MTS Components | |
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| Mom-n-Pop MTS Components | |
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| Maintenance of N-Tier Client/Server Applications | |
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| Modifying a COM Server | |
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| Levels of Version Compatibility | |
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| Version Compatibility Options | |
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| Debugging ActiveX Components | |
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| Troubleshooting Walkthrough | |
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| Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio Analyzer | |
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| Creating an Internet Interface with Active Server Pages | |
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| About Active Server Pages | |
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| Creating Active Server Pages | |
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| Internet IIS Applications | |
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| About Internet IIS Applications | |
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| Creating an IIS Application | |
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| Saving State in IIS Applications | |
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| Testing, Debugging and Building an IIS Application | |
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| ActiveX Documents | |
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| About ActiveX Documents | |
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| Creating an ActiveX Document Application | |
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| The ActiveX Document Migration Wizard | |
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| Distributing an ActiveX Document Application | |
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| The Internet Transfer and Web Browser Controls | |
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| The Microsoft Internet Transfer Control | |
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| The Web Browser Control | |
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| Index | |