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

ISBN: 1572319615
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 70

Authors: Ted Pattison

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• Cover
• LOC Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Who Is This Book For?
• What s on the CD?
• Updates and Other Information
• Chapter 1 -- An Overview of COM
• Why Should You Use COM?
• The Evolution of Microsoft s Multitier Platform
• Understanding COM Services
• Building Distributed Applications with Visual Basic
• Chapter 2 -- Understanding Interface-Based Programming
• The Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming
• Separating the Interface from the Implementation
• Chapter 3 -- The Fundamentals of COM
• The Birth of COM
• Type Libraries and Language Independence
• Loading Component Code Dynamically
• Understanding IUnknown and IDispatch
• Taking COM out of Process
• Chapter 4 -- Building and Designing Servers
• Compiling Components into Servers
• Server Design Issues
• Designing Components for Scripting Clients
• Raising Errors from a Server
• Chapter 5 -- Versioning Components
• Versioning in COM
• Creating User-Defined Interfaces
• Chapter 6 -- Working with Configured Components
• The Basics of Configured Components
• Understanding Contexts
• The COM Programming Model
• Testing and Debugging COM Components
• Chapter 7 -- Sharing Resources in a COM Application
• Sharing Threads
• Sharing Memory
• Sharing Database Connections
• Sharing Poolable Objects
• Chapter 8 -- Programming Transactions
• What Is a Transaction?
• Programming Local Transactions
• Programming Distributed Transactions
• COM and Declarative Transactions
• Transactional Design Issues
• Chapter 9 -- Creating Components for IIS and ASP
• HTTP vs. DCOM
• The IISASP Architecture
• Splitting Code Between ASP Pages and Components
• Managing State in a Web Application
• Chapter 10 -- Introduction to Messaging and Asynchronous Communication
• Why Is Messaging Important?
• MSMQ
• Queued Components
• The COM Events Service
• Deciding Between MSMQ, QC, and COM Events
• Chapter 11 -- COM Security
• Security in Windows 2000
• Security in COM
• Security in IIS
• Chapter 12 -- Designing Scalable Applications
• Scalability Revisited
• Using HTTP in COM Applications
• Application Design Issues
• About the Author
• About This Electronic Book
• About Microsoft Press