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teh_klev · 2019-06-24
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Matt Curland's "Advanced Visual Basic 6: Power Techniques for Everyday Programs: Hardcore Programming Techniques" was a cracker of a book as well back in the day:
I think this is one of the things detractors of VB kinda miss. You could build quite sophisticated software to leverage COM/DCOM without needing to go full C/C++ and IDL.
The place I worked at built software that ran inside Microsoft Transaction Server (latterly COM+) to exploit distributed transactions.
And then there's the really "advanced" stuff you could do in VB as written about by Matthew Curland in his excellent book "Advanced Visual Basic 6: Power Techniques for Everyday Programs"[0]. Armed with a copy of Curland's book and Don Box's "Essential COM" you could be really dangerous :)
[0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Visual-Basic-Programming-D...