Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and IIS (Visual Basic Developer's Guides)

As Visual Basic developers, we have seen a distinct move away from single, monolithic executables to distributed, component-based architectures. With this shift has come the need to think differently. We need to think of applications as a set of components working together to provide the needed solution. As technology changes, we continue to modify our component architectures to support those changes. With the increased need for the development of Web-based applications, the next step is to combine what we know about component-based development with today's Web-based technologies. Tools such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Active Server Pages (ASP), and Internet Information Server (IIS) applications (also known as WebClasses) must be added to our tool kit. But how do we fit these tools into what we already know as Visual Basic programmers? Do we need to learn HTML? Can we build components that are then called by ASP? Can we build Web applications by using our favorite tool: Visual Basic? This book answers these questions. The author, A. Russell Jones, provides a brief introduction to HTML to get us started. He then presents examples of ASP and IIS applications and discusses them in detail to help us get up to speed quickly and keep us in step with today's technologies. Annotation Visual Basic is the world's dominant programming language, with more than 4 million users. Microsoft now pushes VB as a serious enterprise application development tool, and the latest version allows programmers to develop complex Web and database applications. The Visual Basic Developer's Guide series targets intermediate to advanced VB developers who want to learn how to make use of Microsoft's latest technologies, including ADO and COM. The authors are recognized VB experts, speak regularly at industry events, and contribute to some of the leading programming journals The core components of Web application development for programmers using Microsoft technologies are ASP (Active Server Pages) and IIS (Internet Information Server). This book gives experienced Visual Basic developers everything they need in order to develop sophistical Web applications. The book features in-depth information on writing IIS server-side applications and coverage of the new VB WebClasses. Russell Jones is a frequent contributor to Visual Basic Programmer's Journal and a frequent speaker at industry events. Essential advanced information for Visual Basic developers in an underpublished area. One of the only Win 32 API books on the market for professional VB developers, this title gives in-depth coverage of APIs not covered in the only competitive book, including multimedia and networking APIs. Visual Basic was an instant hit in the Windows programming community but so far it hasn't been a major force in the Web programming world, except peripherally, through VBScript. Provides you exactly what you expert instruction in the specific techniques and technologies that make Visual Basic the ideal tool for Web application development. Softcover.