Review
"Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development" is ideal for Visual Basic developers wishing to make the transition from implementing small applications to implementing larger business level enterprise applications.
Chapter one introduces the entire area of application development and the different types of software architecture. The chapter focuses on the three tier model and introduces the Wrox Online Banking Application case study which will be used to illustrate application development. The sample project requires either Win NT 4.0(SP4 or greater) with Win NT 4.0 Option Pack, or Win 2000, Microsoft VB6.0, and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Desktop Version).
The next few chapters cover object oriented programming in Visual Basic 6, component development using COM, and transaction processing using Microsoft Transaction Server(MTS).
Chapter 6 begins work on the WROBA case study and the functionality that is required from the application. The remaining chapters focus on the implementation of the WROBA case study. The topics covered through the implementation of the case study include, design and creation of the SQL Server database, stored procedures, ADO, 3-tier architechture, internet technologies such as HTML and ASP which allows the application to run over the internet, and finally, inter-application communication using XML.
If you have some previous Visual Basic programming knowledge, or have at least read a beginner Visual Basic book, then "Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development" is an excellent next step. You may read some other reader reviews for this book at Amazon.com. | 
