ActiveX -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Com Programming by Example : Using Mfc, Activex, Atl, Ole, and Com
John E. Swanke / Paperback / Expected June 2000
Price: $42.46 - Savings of: $7.49 (15%) Not Yet Published
Microsoft's COM (Component Object Model) is both the key to the company's Internet strategy and the technology for interacting among its applications, such as editing a spreadsheet from within a word processor. It is one of the hottest requirements in network software development today. This book will do for COM what the author's recent MFC books have done to teach that technology - provide a quick but thorough overview of how COM works, and dozens of real-world examples that can be used to accomplish virtually all of the requirements of a COM project. All source code is provided, along with a...

Testing Software Components : Testing Activex Controls
Smith, Ross Smith / Paperback / Expected April 2000
Price: $49.99 Not Yet Published
A guide to testing interaction of compound document container applications, object servers, and ActiveX controls. This book documents step-by-step procedures for testing these components to ensure reliable program interaction. Also included is a test plan wizard that creates a custom test plan for a particular component based on information given by the programmer.

ActiveX Developer's Sourcebook: With CD-ROM
Tom Armstrong / Paperback / Expected August 1997
Price: $49.95 Not Yet Published
Focusing on design and development of Web-based and Web-enabled applications using Microsoft's cutting-edge technology, this book compares the ActiveX browsers, develops and implements Visual Basic Script into real-world applications, and describes the new ActiveX Document standard. The CD contains original ActiveX controls found nowhere else.

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Programming Ado (Dv-Mps Programming)
David Sceppa / Paperback / Published February 2000
Price: $39.99 - Savings of: $10.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
For every developer who's uttered "I wish I knew that before I started writing all this code!" PROGRAMMING ADO demonstrates how to save time, write less code, and build more-powerful data-driven solutions using Microsoft(r) ActiveX(r) Data Objects (ADO). In the book's first section, the author expertly guides readers through the ADO object model-sharing his expertise as a Microsoft Developer Support professional on the properties, events, and methods that can present the greatest challenges to the ADO developer. The remainder of the book is devoted to helping developers comprehend how ADO obje...

ADO Programming in Visual Basic 6
Steven Holzner / Textbook Binding / Published November 1999
Price: $39.99 - Savings of: $10.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
Introduction Welcome to our book on ADO database programming with Visual Basic. ActiveX Data Object (ADO) programming has a special connection with Visual Basic, and we'll see both packages at their best and most powerful in this book. These two packages—ADO and Visual Basic—are specifically designed to work together. Visual Basic bends over backwards to make using ADO easy, and I'll cover the Visual Basic database tools like data views, data environments, the query builder, and more in depth. For example, Visual Basic data environments—often not even covered in gene...

ActiveX Template Library Development With Visual C++ 6.0
Nathan Wallace / Paperback / Published May 1999
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Bestselling author Nathan Wallace provides the experienced programmer and developer with an overview of Microsoft's ATL (active template library) which is a set of C++ templates to assist in the development of small and fast ActiveX controls and servers. This is an especially advanced level title for experienced Visual C++ 6.0 programmers working with ActiveX.

Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual C++ 6.0 With CDROM
Nathan Wallace / Paperback / Published March 1999
Price: $33.96 - Savings of: $5.99 (15%) - Ships in 2-3 days
A set of detailed examples is geared to move developers into the ActiveX revolution. Wallace's book presents 12 chapters of core programming examples with complete source code and detailed explanations. The code and project files from the book and shareware are included on the CD-ROM.

Website Development Training CD - Vol 3 of 3 - Macintosh/Windows
Dana Smith / CD-ROM / Published January 1999
Price: $49.95 Special Order

Beginning Visual Basic 6 Objects
Peter Wright / Paperback / Published November 1998
Price: $31.99 - Savings of: $8.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours

Dan Appleman's Developing Com/Activex Components With Visual Basic 6
Dan Appleman, Daniel Appleman / Paperback / Published November 1998
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Dan Appleman's Developing COM/ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6 provides expert-mode knowledge of COM controls along with a guide to some of the latest features in Visual Basic. Extremely thorough and densely packed with advice, this book is just right for the programmer who needs to know all the details about Visual Basic controls.

Activex/Ole Programming : Building Stable Components With Microsoft Foundation Class
Donis Marshall / Paperback / Published July 1998
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Sooner or later, most Windows developers will have to become familiar with ActiveX/COM. This book is for the Sooner group. Donis Marshall is writing for developers who have a moderate amount of C++ experience and a basic knowledge of MFC but who are new to ActiveX concepts and techniques. In it they will find a clear and thorough introduction to ActiveX/OLE programming using Microsoft Foundation Classes. The book explains, step by step, how to assemble robust components, containers, and controls. Developers will learn the core concepts of COM and OLE and focus on applications that incorporate ...

Mr. Bunny's Guide to Activex
Carlton, III Egremont / Paperback / Published July 1998
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Surely, our society must have passed some technological milestone in order for component software to merit a comic novella. Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX attempts to enlighten the reader about Microsoft's distributed-computing solution without actually explaining the technology, as more gauche programming books frequently do.

ActiveX Scripting With Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
Nathan Wallace / Paperback / Published June 1998
Price: $44.95 - Ships in 2-3 days
Reaching out to all levels of scripting developers, from casual desktop users to experienced Web page authors, this title gives full coverage of "active content" elements of Internet Explorer 4.0, the Dynamic Scripting Object Model, JavaScript and VBScript syntax, and the DHTML (Dynamic HTML) tag set.

Essential Delphi 3 Fast : Includes Activex Development (Essential Series (Springer-Verlag))
John Cowell / Paperback / Published January 1998
Price: $29.95 - Ships in 24 hours
Delphi '97 is the latest version of the highly successful object-oriented, visual programming environment for Windows 95 from Borland. Designed to get the user up and running fast when developing new and effective Windows applications, Essential Delphi '97 Fast covers all the new, key features of Delphi, making it an excellent reference for visual programmers.

Active Platform : A Developer's Guide : Microsoft Solutions for Next Generation Web Sites
John Omahen, John Cmahen / Paperback / Published January 1998
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Programming Web Components
Reaz Hoque, Tarun Sharma (Contributor) / Paperback / Published January 1998
Price: $39.96 - Savings of: $9.99 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
This handbook shows developers how to integrate CORBA and COM components on the Web with Java Beans. The title covers the latest technology, including JDK 1.2, RMI, CORBA, and MIME. The CD-ROM contains custom Glasgow beans.

Programming Active Server Pages (Microsoft Programming Series)
Scot Hillier, et al / Unknown Binding / Published December 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Programming Active Server Pages is not just a tutorial for creating dynamic Web pages, but also a guide to all the relevant tools and necessary Microsoft technology required to build state-of-the-art Web sites. Stressing a hands-on approach and featuring plenty of relevant screen shots, the authors take you through the basics of HTML and scripting languages such as VBScript, ActiveX, and Java and explain how Active Server Pages (ASPs) can be used to deliver platform-independent dynamic content. Further sections introduce Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Personal Web Server as a dev...

Learn ActiveX Development Using Visual Basic 5.0
Nathan Wallace / Paperback / Published December 1997
Price: $42.46 - Savings of: $7.49 (15%) Back Ordered
By presenting material in a hands-on format, this title guides developers who are inexperienced with COM, OLE, and ActiveX into full mastery of the capabilities of the development environment. The book is ideally targeted for experienced C++ and ActiveX developers due to the presentation of programming examples using Visual Basic 5.0 with ActiveX.

Essence of COM and ActiveX, The: A Programmers Workbook
David S. Platt / Textbook Binding / Published December 1997
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This revised second edition features more coverage of ActiveX component development, data transfer, and Internet scripting, while retaining the easy-to-use, "bite-sized chunks" philosophy of teaching good COM programming practices. This book makes COM and ActiveX easy to understand . . . and comfortable to use. The CD-ROM contains 9.5 MB of working sample code to cut and paste into applications. .

Discover Activex
Richard Mansfield / Paperback / Published October 1997
Price: $24.99 Special Order
"Discover ActiveX" focuses on the latest incarnation of ActiveX and the creation of ActiveX controls with two programming tools: Visual Basic Control Creation Edition and Visual Basic 5. The title is a hands-on guide to ActiveX programming for the mass audience of Basic programmers. The CD-ROM includes Visual Basic Control Creation Edition and ActiveX Control Pad.

Microsoft Active Platform Sourcebook
Donald R. Brewer / Paperback / Published October 1997
Price: $29.99 - Ships in 2-3 days
The latest technology from Microsoft that creates new possibilities for networking and the Internet. With Active Platform, Microsoft is moving to revolutionize Internet, Intranet and networking capabilities. A combination of ActiveX, Active Desktop, and Active Server, Active Platform will make all of Microsoft's products Internet accessible and allow them to be linked in a networking environment. This book shows developers and Webmasters everything they need to know to create applications on the Active Platform, taking them through each of the platform's three components in logical, skill-buil...

Essential Visual Basic 5.0 Fast : Includes Activex Control Development (Essential Series)
John Cowell / Paperback / Published September 1997
Price: $26.00 - Ships in 24 hours
Most software developers today are working in a Windows environment and using Visual Basic as the development language. A must for all Visual Basic programmers, this guide describes all the new features of this language including the control development framework, the built-in compiler, and the reworked source code editor.

Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days (Teach Yourself...)
Sanjaya Hettihewa, Kelly Held / Unknown Binding / Published September 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
The fundamentals of Active Serve Pages are explored, covering Visual Basic and Web scripting languages. Readers will learn how to create dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions. Active Server Pages enable server side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and JScript.

Active Xpert
Tom Armstrong, et al / Paperback / Published September 1997
Price: $39.96 - Savings of: $9.99 (20%) - Ships in 2-3 days
ActiveX Developer's Sourcebook compares the available ActiveX browsers, develops and implements Visual Basic Script into real-world applications, and explains how to integrate ActiveX and Java-based technologies, including Jakarta. The CD contains original, fully executable and ready-to-use ActiveX controls.

ActiveX All in One: A Web Developer's Guide with CDROM
Zane Lang / Paperback / Published August 1997
Price: $44.95 Special Order
Powerful Internet applications are easy to create and modify using Microsoft's ActiveX. You can leverage your existing Windows 95 skills to make your Web sites come alive with audio, video, and even 3-D virtual reality. ActiveX works interactively with other Microsoft applications that support Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. By taking advantage of the Common Object Model (COM), ActiveX lets you link forms, spreadsheets, and databases from these sources directly to your Web site. For beginners, ActiveX All In One offers an introduction to basic Web techniques and languages. You'll learn basic and advanced HTML, as well as VBScript and JavaScript. A special chapter shows you how to use Microsoft's Script Debugger for Internet Explorer to zap errors before they cause problems. Then you'll learn to fire up your Web site design using the special features of ActiveX, such as the Control Pad and Script Wizard. ActiveX All In One will show you where to find the latest new tools on the Internet, and how to keep expanding your ActiveX skills. You'll get a thorough walkthrough of how to set up and manage your own multimedia Web site, including choosing server software, connecting to the Internet, and keeping your site secure and up to date.

Vbscript 2 & Activex Programming (Visual Developer)
Scott D. Palmer / Unknown Binding / Published July 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

ActiveX
Joseph Schmuller / Paperback / Published July 1997
Price: $29.99 Special Order
A Webmaster's essential guide to using Microsoft's hottest new Internet technology. Written by the Editor in Chief of PC AI magazine, this book concentrates on providing readers with loads of practical skills that show what ActiveX is, what it does, and how to use it effectively. Hundreds of real-world examples let readers use ActiveX controls to add sizzle to any Web page. Readers will learn how to add command buttons, list boxes, combo boxes, multimedia controls, and other ActiveX Control Pad functions, allowing them to produce stunning Web pages that previously could be created only by prof...

Building ActiveX Controls with Visual Basic 5.0
Jose Mojica / Paperback / Published July 1997
Price: $49.99 Special Order
In this guide, the author explores alternatives for professional control development and presents strategies for building and compiling small; , fast controls of industrial strength. Using detailed instructions and practical examples, Mojica demonstrated all the new Visual Basic 5.0 commands for control creation and examines key commercialization issues such as compatibility, language translation, and security. Pub: 8/97.

ActiveX Developer's Resource (Bk/CD)
Kamran Husain, et al / Textbook Binding / Published July 1997
Price: $49.95 - Ships in 2-3 days
Welcome to ActiveX Developer's Resource, a book written for programmers who want to use and develop ActiveX controls to enhance their applications. Reading through this book you'll find that it goes beyond developing ActiveX controls with various Microsoft tools; it also covers writing applications with ActiveX controls.

Teach Yourself ActiveX Control Programming with Visual Basic 5; With CDROM
Keith Brophy, et al / Paperback / Published June 1997
Price: $39.99 Special Order
Presents programming techniques in logical and easy-to-follow sequences that introduce the principles involved in developing programs, beginning with basic programming and moving to interactivity, animation, and more. Original. (All Users).

ActiveX Programmer's Library
Suleiman Lalani, et al / Paperback / Published May 1997
Price: $49.95 - Ships in 24 hours
The "ActiveX Programmer's Library" gives programmers what they want--code, code and more code! The book features step-by-step instructions on how to fully master ActiveX programming through programming examples (source code). The CD-ROM contains source code for each object in the library. Programmers can cut and paste these examples into their own Web sites in minutes Pub: 5/97.

Activex Controls Inside Out (2nd Ed)
Adam Denning / Paperback / Published May 1997
Price: $31.96 - Savings of: $7.99 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
An in-depth guide for C++++ and VB programmers who want to build powerful custom controls contains the latest information on MFC, changes to OLE, and Visual Basic support for ActiveX control creation. Original. (Intermediate).

Activex Development With Visual Basic 5 : Windows 95 & Windows NT : The Professional Guide to Programming Internet/Intranet Applications
Evangelos Petroutsos / Unknown Binding / Published May 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

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