Microsoft - COM+ Overview for VB Programmers Best of the Net
Adapted by the author from the book, "Programming Distributed Applications with COM+ and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0", this article is a great introduction to the big step up to programming COM objects. Microsoft SDK's
Here's where to get the SDK's that Microsoft provides for developers. SDK's for the Windows platform, media, and server platforms can be found on this page.
Microsoft - Using the Office 2000 COM Objects
A full hour multimedia (slide show and audio) presentation from Microsoft about how to use the objects inside Office 2000 such as spreadsheet, chart, pivottable, and datasource. Requires the bandwidth to download streaming media and Media Player. Microsoft - Using COM+ and VB 6
COM+ is Microsoft 'marketing speak' for 'even better than COM was'. Here's an 80 page document about designing, building, and deploying COM+ using VB 6. COM+ Automation
One of the hassles of using COM is the requirement to "register" COM components and then "re-register" them if anything changes. This isn't so much of a problem if you're simply purchasing something that doesn't get updated, but if you're building your own and they change a lot, it can be a real pain. Here's how to take some of the pain out. Advanced - Use ASP, VB, and Microsoft Transaction Server
This article from the high level Microsoft Systems Journal assumes you’re familiar with Visual Basic, IIS, ASP, and MTS. But it shows you how to use ASP and VB to create the kind of multi-level sophisticated information systems that you see in commercial sites. Advanced - Changing Passwords with the MTS COM Object
It gets just a little deep in this article. NTLM (the author mispells it) is Windows NT LAN Manager. This article gets into the nitty-gritty of how to use VB along with MTS to do server password management. Using the InternetExplorer Object in your VB code
It's easier than you think to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer as an object in your VB Code. Here's a short article that walks you through the process. Documentation for the Microsoft InternetExplorer Object
Here are the Events, Methods, and Properties that you can use with the InternetExplorer Object in your VB code. Using The Internet Transfer Control
If you need low level access to HTTP, FTP, or even Gopher (talk about dark ages!), this user friendly article explains how.
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