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Summary: A must have for Internet Programming
Review: If you need to do any Internet programming, this book is a must have. It is the only book I was able to find that discusses the details of using VB to handle FTP programming. The books goes into details in many other areas, I just needed the section on FTP. Thanks to Carl, I was able to complete my task.
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Summary: Great for info about different protocols
Review: If you want to know the key info about writing your own mail client, news client, or other basic Internet clients, this is a great book to break into the knowledge. The only bad thing is how most of the book is written around a 3rd party component. If that wasn't the case, this would easily be a 5 star book. However, you can still get great info about whats involved in writing the different clients, and that info can be used with VB's Inet control.--Kent
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Summary: Conection for Internet (Winsock), a Browser
Review: Information or code of conections for Interne
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Summary: Best VB Internet programming book I've read
Review: It took me awhile to find a good VB Internet programming book. My search ended when I came across this excellent book from Wiley publishing. Excellent coverage of SMTP, TCP/IP, POP3, FTP,HTTP, and more. I loved it so much I wasted no time adding it to my list of favorites on my Visual Basic Book Reviews web site.
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Summary: Title should read - How to Use a Proprietary Control in VB6
Review: Not what I expected at all. The first part of the book was okay - the history and building of the internet. The rest of the book - including sample code - was a discussion of how to use the control the writer created. If you want to spend another $300+ to be able to do your own FTP application, this is the book for you. That's what it costs to buy the software that will allow the sample code to run.
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Summary: About this book
Review: Since the words "Internet Programming" are so general, I thought I would give some details as to what my book is all about, so you can make a more informed purchase. VB6 Internet Programming is primarily a client-side programming book. While it gives you a good introduction to all the server-side tools available, it is by no means a complete text on Internet Information Server, Active Server Pages, VB6 WebClasses, and CGI. That said, you will learn more about how to write Internet-based software reading my book than you will with any other book on the topic. It starts with the fundamental concepts of TCP/IP and Winsock. Then I show you how to write some simple protocols like TIME, FINGER, and WHOIS. Next, we jump right into programming NNTP (Usenet clients), HTTP (web), SMTP & POP3 (Email), and FTP with sample projects for accessing each. The rest of the book covers server-side technology. I show you how to write a guest-book application with a freeware tool called CGI4VB, then the same application with WebClasses. Then I introduce you to Active Server Pages and the Internet Database Connector with more sample projects. Finally, it ends with a custom object that you can use in your projects to do custom client-server communication. This is the second edition of the same book for Visual Basic 4.0. In this book, I have supplied all of the above protocol code in the form of objects. This makes it easy for you to use them in your own projects. Just drop in the object and use it. The VB 4.0 version of my book has been used as the textbook for many college and university courses on Internet Programming.
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Summary: Do not buy this book unless you are willing to pay more.
Review: That is true. When I bought this book, I thought I am going to learn *efficiently* the Visual Basic Internet Programming. But, actually, I was dissapointed as the book, generally speaking, just explains the different uses of the accompanying shareware that it has on the CD. IMHO, I think this shareware software is expensive (it is called dsSocket.OCX). So far, I finished reading the first 3 chapters and all the examples I went over, are dependent on this shareware. I believe the author should have spent more time explaining Microsoft Winsock since it is already available to WINDOWS users. I am really dissappointed with this book and I feel it is like a *cheap* way of advtertizing about the dsSocket.OCX. I do not recommend this book unless you are willing to buy the shareware. I wish that I had not spent a penny on this book. Please, BE AWARE! I wish that that the author can read my notes and use my recommendation to use Winsock in the next edition of his book.
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Summary: Flawed but valuable
Review: The author has the irritating habit of using custom controls rather than concentrating on VB6. Some of the source code won't compile or doesn't work. The book refers to material that is not even on the CD. Nevertheless, there is so much good material that the book deserves 4 stars.
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Summary: Title should read - How to Use a Proprietary Control in VB6
Review: The book gave a great backgroung to FTP, "user-unfriendly" terms, buzzwords. Unfortunately, if you are looking for code that will assist you in developing your own application this may NOT be for you...
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Summary: A Good background but based on proprietary VB control
Review: The book gave a great backgroung to FTP, "user-unfriendly" terms, buzzwords. Unfortunately, if you are looking for code that will assist you in developing your own application this may NOT be for you...
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