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Programming Distributed Applications with Com and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Programming/Visual Basic)

ISBN: 1572319615
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 1998
Pages: 72

Authors: Ted Pattison

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• Cover
• LOC Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Learning COM from the Visual Basic Perspective
• Who This Book Is For
• Chapter 1 -- An Overview of Distributed COM
• What Is COM?
• The Move from Two-Tier to N-Tier Architecture
• Distributed Development on Windows NT Server
• How Do You Get up to Speed and Stay Afloat?
• Chapter 2 -- Understanding Interface-Based Programming
• Classes, Objects, and Clients
• Implementation Inheritance
• Separating the Interface from the Implementation
• Using Interfaces in Your Application Designs
• Chapter 3 -- Exploring COM Internals
• The Birth of COM
• Initial COM Design Requirements
• Examining the COM Infrastructure
• Chapter 4 -- Understanding COM Objects
• The IUnknown Interface
• Automation
• Taking COM out of Process
• Objects and Servers
• Chapter 5 -- COM Servers
• Component Packaging
• Building a Server
• Component Versioning
• Server Design Issues
• HRESULTs and COM Exceptions
• Designing Servers
• Chapter 6 -- Designing Interfaces
• Managing Interface Design
• Designing Remote Interfaces
• Objects and the Universal Marshaler
• Outbound Interfaces
• Chapter 7 -- Exploring Apartments and Multithreading
• A Win32 Threading Primer
• Multithreading with Visual Basic
• Multithreading in a Form-Based Application
• Threading in the COM Era
• When Do You Really Need Multithreading?
• Chapter 8 -- Examining Remote Activation
• RPC and COM
• Server-Side Configuration
• Client-Side Configuration
• Using Distributed COM Across a Firewall
• Evaluating the Initial Release of Distributed COM
• Chapter 9 -- The MTS Run-Time Environment
• Deploying MTS Components
• The MTS Executive
• The MTS Concurrency Model
• Developing MTS Components
• Chapter 10 -- Programming Transactions
• Fundamentals of Transaction Processing
• Distributed Transactions
• MTS and Declarative Transactions
• Chapter 11 -- Programming with Microsoft Message Queue
• Why Are Queues Important?
• The MSMQ Network
• Installing MSMQ
• Programming MSMQ Objects
• Using Transactional Messages
• Using Auxiliary Queues
• Chapter 12 -- Designing Distributed Applications
• The MTS Security Model
• Sharing Global Data Across MTS Objects
• Creating Web-Based Applications
• Creating Middleware for a Distributed Application