by Microsoft Corporation
The first of the three volumes in this box set, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Language Reference compiles all the language features of today's Visual Basic, from basic data types and built-in control types (their methods, properties, and events) to advanced material (such as conditional compilation
directives).
The second volume, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Component Tools Guide, isn't a dictionary, but an in-depth, useful tutorial to Visual Basic programming--and even to deploying ActiveX components, the technological heart of Visual Basic. After a basic tour of ActiveX controls, the text introduces each of the more than two dozen built-in ActiveX controls that ship with Visual Basic 6, from fancy widgets, such as the new DateTimePicker and Coolbar controls, to older favorites, such as the Animation and UpDown controls.
The last volume of the set, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Controls Reference, returns to reference mode with a convenient listing of the properties, events, and methods for more than two dozen standard Visual Basic controls, from user interface objects such as grids, list, and tree views to Internet transfer controls and those that provide database access. The book clearly explains each control's property, method, and event. --Rich Dragan
by Microsoft Corporation
Written by the developers of Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide gives you a solid overall grounding in the language and the major tasks you will undertake in the development environment.
The book is divided into two parts and a series of appendices. The first part introduces the basic concepts of the Visual Basic environment and explains the form and event-driven paradigm. The second part, "What You Can Do with Visual Basic," makes up the majority of the book. A chapter on user-interface creation illustrates how to create single- and multiple-document interfaces and implement dialogs and toolbars, and presents some general user-interface tips. The guide then presents ActiveX components, event and error handling, text and graphics manipulation, performance optimization, and other crucial topics. Four appendices spell out Visual Basic's limits, coding conventions, compiler options, and how to add help to your programs. No matter what your skill level, this programmer's guide will become a frequently visited companion.
--Stephen Plain
by Dale Rogerson
COM (Component Object Model) forms the foundation of OLE and ActiveX as well as Microsoft's vision for componentized, distributed computing. Here is a developer's guide to using the industry-leading component object model to build efficient, robust OLE components and ActiveX controls. This book will give the reader knowledge to better use OLE interfaces and create ActiveX components.
by David J. Kruglinski, Scot Wingo, George Shepherd
The acknowledged standard for unlocking the power and versatility of Microsoft Visual C++, this resource has been updated to cover the latest features that support Internet development.An enclosed CD-ROM contains valuable sample source code and sample applications developed for the book. All of which makes this volume an indispensable tool that every professional should keep
close at hand.
by K. N. King
Covers the C language from the basics to advanced programming, for students and experienced programmers. Emphasizes a software engineering approach in sections on basic features of C; the standard C library; and advanced features such as pointers, declarations, and programming design. Features real-life examples, C code, exercises, and Q&A sections. Includes reference appendices. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
by Richard Anderson, Alex Homer, Simon Robinson
ASP components are the next stage for the maturing ASP programmer. They reflect a need for bespoke and fine control over site activity. For example, when a basic ASP site wishes to have some sort of transactional ability, where a database will ultimately be referred to or some business rule checked against, then a custom component will do the job. This component could be written in VB,VC or Java and is hermetic and maintainable.
This book is about the broad flavors of common components, how they should fit an architecture and how to write them correctly.
by John Perry
This practical, example-driven, code-centered book is intended for intermediate-level C programmers who want to take their skills to the next level. The book builds on readers' existing background in C to complete their knowledge of ANSI C libraries, and the conceptual and syntactic structures needed to master dynamic data structures, string parsing and numeric conversion, memory management, bit-level manipulation, interactions with operating systems, and other advanced techniques. What sets this book apart from traditional data structures books is it's "blue collar" approach to the art of programming -- how to master the "down in the trenches" C details to implement abstract ideas successfully. In recognition of this approach, the book presents actual C code rather than pseudocode.
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, Larry Wall
Learning Perl is ideal for system administrators, programmers, and anyone else wanting a down-to-earth introduction to this useful language. Written by a Perl trainer, the book's aim is to make a competent, hands-on Perl programmer out of the reader as quickly as possible. The book takes a step-by-step, hands-on tutorial approach and includes hundred of short code examples.
by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
When the second edition of Programming Perl was released, the authors omitted two chapters: "Common Tasks with Perl" and "Real Perl Programs." Publisher O'Reilly & Associates soon realized that there would be too many pages in Programming Perl if it put updated recipes in the new edition. Instead, O'Reilly chose to release the many Perl code examples as a separate entity:
The Perl Cookbook.
The recipes are well documented and the examples aren't too arcane; even beginners will be able to pick up the lessons taught here. The authors write in relatively easy-to-understand language (for a technical guide). Through this book and its arsenal of recipes, you will learn many new things about Perl to help you through your toughest projects. The next time you're working on a project at 2 a.m., you'll thank yourself for the guidance and direction The Perl Cookbook provides. --Doug Beaver
by Sriram Srinivasan
This book covers complex techniques for managing production-ready Perl programs and explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. It gives you necessary background for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs, and includes a discussion of internals to help you program more efficiently, and imbed Perl within C when necessary Pub: 8/97.
The book's index is available online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/inx.html
by Dick Hardt, Erik Olson, David Futato, Brian Jepson, Mike McMillan
This large box set represents the state of the art in Perl for 32-bit Windows systems. In this package, you have the Perl core modules, extensions, utilities, and scores of excellent technical documentation. If you want to develop Perl software under Windows NT or other modern Windows environments, you need the Perl Resource Kit--Win32 Edition.
The CD-ROM is the big news here. It contains the Win32 Perl core binaries, plus PerlCtrl, PerlCOM, PL2EXE, and Perl for Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI). You'll also find Perl Web-server extensions and the ActiveState Perl Debugger environment. All this is in addition to the examples from the books! Perhaps best of all, the disk holds the language's source files. Yes, you could get most of this software online, but the convenience of having all the binaries and source together on a CD-ROM --to say nothing of the documentation--makes the Perl Resource Kit--Win32 Edition extraordinary and worthwhile. --David Wall
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
Perl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. Any Perl book can show you the syntax of Perl's functions, but only this one is a comprehensive guide to all the nooks and crannies of the language. Any Perl book can tell you about typeglobs, pseudohashes, and closures, but only this one can show you how they really work. Any Perl book can tell you that my is faster than local, but only this one can explain why. Any Perl book can have a title, but only this book is affectionately known by all Perl programmers as The Camel.
This 3rd edition of Programming Perl has been expanded to cover version 5.6 of this maturing language. New topics include threading, the compiler, Unicode, and other new features that have been added since the previous edition.
by Lincoln Stein
The Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm is geared toward a reader who is familiar enough with Perl to have used modules and knowledgeable about HTML and Web-site design. Stein uses CGI.pm for tables, drop-down menus, guest books, single-page or multipart forms, image maps, and cookies. The author of both the book and Perl library function, Stein provides ample discussion of all of these areas, along with strong code examples. The book ends with a verbose reference guide detailing all of CGI.pm's functions and features, grouped both alphabetically and by topic.
The use of CGI.pm requires a mind shift for Web site managers, but it's one worth making. Instead of tags like <INPUT> and <SELECT>, CGI.pm uses statements such as "checkbox ()" and "textfield ()," allowing documents to be read easily and updated quickly. --Jennifer Buckendorff
by Marco Toschi, et. al.
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and its related technologies are emerging as the standard way of creating network-wise software for wireless computing devices, such as mobile telephones. Wrox Press's team of programmer-writers have put together a winner in Professional WAP. To a greater extent than any other WAP book on the market, this volume shows its readers how to do real work by using WAP, Wireless Markup Language (WML), WMLScript, and various toolkits and servers that ease wireless application development. Best of all, the authors realize that most folks working as WAP developers have Web roots; they explain their subjects in terms that anyone with a bit of HTML and Web-scripting (JavaScript or VBScript) background should be able to follow easily.
by Martin Frost
The next generation of mobile communicators is here, and delivering content to them will mean programming in WML (Wireless Markup Language) and WMLScript, the languages of the Wireless Application Environment (WAE). The WAE allows information in almost all applications to be formatted for display on mobile devices, such as cell telephones, and enables the user to interact with the information.
by W. Richard Stevens
This book describes the programming interface to the Unix system - the system call interface and many of the functions provided in the standard C library. It is intended for anyone writing programs that run under Unix.