Visual Basic 4.0 Internet Programming

Visual Basic is Microsoft's programming environment for Windows that integrates a version of the Basic language and a point-and-click user interface. This guide shows the reader what is needed, for example, to add Internet capabilities to Windows programs.

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Cutting-edge software developer and leading Visual Basic columnist Carl Franklin arms you with the knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques you need to add Internet capabilities to your Windows(r) and Windows NTTM applications and to develop entire Internet utilities, components, and programs. Featuring a series of progressively more sophisticated examples, Visual Basic 4.0 Internet Programming teaches you how to: Use fundamental Internet technologies and protocols, including TCP/IP, Windows Sockets, SMTP, and HTTP Build Internet client programs, including Web, USENET, E-mail, Gopher, and FTP applications Create CGI scripts, forms, and "back end" Web applications Construct OLE-based Internet programs and remote-access Internet database applications Use next-generation Windows Internet technologies, including Microsoft's Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) and Internet Database Connector (IDC) On the CD-ROM you'll find: Plug-in Visual Basic networking components Customizable Internet client programs and browsers for the Web and other protocols Internet database engines Visit our Web site at: http://www wiley.com/compbooks/