The following products have been awarded the "Advanced Visual Basic: APPROVED!"
award. This award is for technical excellence in helping Visual Basic developers achieve
their goals.
Dan Appleman's Developing Activex Components With Visual Basic 5.0: A Guide to the Perplexed
by Daniel Appleman
Published by ZD Press
Publication date: April 1997
Provides coverage on how to program ActiveX components, with a focus on working around bugs, common pitfalls, and
documentation limits; and sample source code is provided on the accompanying disk.
Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API
by Daniel Appleman
Published by ZD Press
Publication date: March 1997
The LORD of all technical references for Visual Basic programmers
has been released. It is 1,500 pages of sheer technical excellence.
No Visual Basic developer should be without it. If you use the Win32
API at all, get it. If you don't use the Win32 API at all, start using
it by reading this book.
Hardcore Visual Basic : Version 5.0
by Bruce McKinney
Published by Microsoft Press
Publication date: July 1997
This book is best at outlining some of the new language features in VB5,
especially its improved support for type libraries and object-oriented
programming. The heart of this book is dedicated to ways of accessing the
Win32 API from within Visual Basic, which is presented in expert detail
with a library of add-on functions. Sample ActiveX controls, DLL's, with
libraries of VB extensions are included.
OLE Remote Automation With Visual Basic 4
by Kenneth L. Spencer, Kenneth C. Miller
Published by Prentice Hall
Publication date: March 1996
The best book on OLE Remote Automation available. Even if you don't use remote objects,
it is still an extremely valuable resource. Great coverage on
OLE errors, sample programs, registry editing, and more.
Win 32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 95 and Windows NT
by Marshall Brain
Published by Prentice Hall
Publication date: December 1995
Covers topics such as threads, network communications, RPCs, file mapping,
compressed files, object & file security, event logging, TCP/IP, synchronization,
interprocess communication, services, the registry, and more. Well organized,
this book comes highly recommended to C and VB developers. It comes with a
disk with all the source code in the book, however it's all in C. VB programmers
don't be scared off -- it's easy to understand as long as you've played with a few
declare statements.
