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Developing COM/ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6: A Guide to the Perplexed

This is a new e-book edition of the bestselling book on component development with VB6.
Refer to the editorial and peer reviews of the print edition (ISBN 1562765760) for more details.
In addition to the complete text of the most recent VB6 print edition, this edition includes additional
new commentary addressing changes since the original publication, and [...]

Exploring VB6 Volume 3: System and Utilties

The Exploring VB6 series is a “best of” collction of Dan Appleman’s previously published work
for Visual Basic 6 developers. This second volume is intended for intermediate and advanced developers, and focuses
on system and utility operations. Each article has been brought up to date and includes a new section on
migrating to Visual Basic .NET. [ [...]

Exploring VB6 Volume 2: Files and Directories

The Exploring VB6 series is a “best of” collction of Dan Appleman’s previously published work
for Visual Basic 6 developers. This second volume is intended for intermediate and advanced developers, and focuses
on file and directory operations. Also covers advanced API programming techniques and how to migrate them to VB .NET. [ Available in PDF Format [...]

Exploring VB6 Volume 1: Essentials

The Exploring VB6 series is a “best of” collction of Dan Appleman’s previously published work
for Visual Basic 6 developers. This first volume is intended for intermediate level developers, and focuses
on fundemental issues that every VB6 programmer should know. Most articles have been updated to cover migration to
Visual Basic .NET. [ Available in PDF Format [...]

Hijacking .NET - Volume 2: Protecting your own code

Volume 1 of Hijacking .NET introduced today’s equivalent of
using undocumented Windows API functions. Except that not only are the
functions under discussion undocumented, they are actually private - functions
internal to the .NET framework that were never intended to be used from
outside.
But the same techniques used to hijack hidden features of the .NET framework
can be used [...]

Hijacking .NET - Volume 1: Role Based Security

Hijacking .NET is today’s equivalent of using undocumented
Windows API functions. Except that not only are the functions under discussion
undocumented, they are actually private - functions internal to the .NET
framework that were never intended to be used from outside. [ Available in PDF Format for $10 / Download ]

Exploring .NET Volume 2: VB Magic

This eBook is a collection of 5 shorter articles on a variety of .NET topics. Though most were
previously published, all have been updated and in many cases expanded for this collection.
This articles in this volume are intended primarily for VB .NET developers,
and contain mostly VB .NET specific information, thus C# ports of the
sample code [...]

Exploring .NET Volume 1

This eBook is a collection of 7 shorter articles on a variety of .NET topics. Though most were
previously published, all have been updated and in many cases expanded for this collection.
Except for VB.NET specific topics, articles include both VB.NET and C# sample code. [ Available in PDF Format for $7.50 / Download ]

Tracing and Logging with .NET

In the ideal world, every application and component would be
a black box that would work perfectly the first time, and that would fulfill
its purpose without any need for human intervention or review. In practice, this ideal is rarely achieved.
Real world applications need to be instrumented - meaning that there need to be ways for [...]

Obfuscating .NET: Protecting your code from prying eyes

Did you know you actually ship your source code every time you
distribute a .NET assembly?
One of the consequences of the architecture of .NET is that a great deal of information
about an assembly is kept with the assembly in a part of the file called the Manifest.
This information makes it remarkably easy to not just [...]

Regular Expressions with .NET

With the release of Visual Studio .NET, a great deal of attention has been placed on the Visual
Studio .NET languages, Visual Basic .NET, C# and Managed C++ (not to mention the
dozens of others under development by various companies). It might surprise you
to know that yet another language is built into Visual Studio - one [...]

VB or C#: Which to Choose (VS 2005 Edition)

In the Visual Studio 2005 “Whidbey” edition eBook by best-selling author Dan Appleman,
you find an in-depth comparison of the two languages. In a feature-by-feature, head-to-head contest, Dan pulls no punches
in calling the winner in each case. A technical comparison is only the beginning. With a keen eye
for the business issues involved in language choice, [...]

Visual Basic or C#: Which to Choose (VS 2003 Edition)

In the Visual Studio 2003 edition eBook by best-selling author Dan Appleman,
you will find an in-depth comparison of the two languages.
In a feature-by-feature, head-to-head contest, Dan pulls no punches
in calling the winner in each case. [ Available in PDF Format for $10 / Download ]

Introduction to NT/2000 Security Programming with Visual Basic 6

NT Security is a subject that is intimidating, to say the least.
But if you dig past the confusing acronyms, you’ll find that it’s actually
very easy to understand. This article, based on the author’s well received
talks at VSLive, will help you get started on the right foot with NT security,
and give you the foundation of [...]

iPhoto 4: Visual Quick Start Guide

You’ve finally figured out how to use that digital camera you got for the holidays; now if only you could figure out what to do with the tons of digital photos you’re suddenly amassing! Enter iPhoto 4. Included on all new Macs, it solves this problem (and then some!) by offering a plethora of [...]

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