by Rahul Vyas (coder000) (2 Submissions)
Category: OLE/COM/DCOM/Active-X
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(11 Votes)
First tutorial of the series COM, Introduction about the series. The series will contain topics like COM, DCOM, MTS, Pointers, Dynamic Memory Allocation, etc. Plus some basic Data Structures like Collections, Structures, Arrays, Enum, etc.
VBcoders
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(INTRODUCTION)
Friends, I am planning to post a complete series of
Tutorials under the title COM. COM, because basically we will be dealing with components.
The topics that we will cover in the series are:
Introduction
Using DLLs
- Automation
Introduction
to ADO
ADO
(continued)
Arrays,
Functions & Sub - Routines
Files,
Structures, Enumerations & Collections
Dynamic
Memory Allocation & Pointers in VB
Objects
& Classes
Active
– X DLL – Making our own COM
Interfaces
Collection
Classes
Project
to show the practical use of Components (covering collection classes,
interfaces, etc.)
Active
– X EXE
DCOM
MTS
Miscellaneous
& Left Overs
Summary
If at any point of time you need help, you may contact me
at: [email protected].
The purpose of this series is to make new as well as
experienced programmers, get some in-depth idea of the above mentioned topics.
Many of these topics may not be called as parts of COM. But, I have included
them to make them clear so that we may use them in our components. Data
Structures (at least basic) must be clear! Don’t you think so?
Some topic might seem like C there like Pointers and Dynamic
Memory Allocation. These are very important concepts and need to be seen at
least.
After this point we are beginning with Object Oriented
Concepts and their implementation in VB. Here we will have in-depth
knowledge of Objects, Classes, COM, etc. Then, we will see some very
important concepts like Interfaces and their implementation in VB.
After all this it is better to go for some Practical example
to show the usage of various concepts.
Then we will cover Active – X EXE, DCOM and MTS.
But, we will not be covering asynchronous callbacks here.
All this will greatly depend on your participation and
interest. So, I would feel good, if you give your precious suggestions and
comments.