VB6 UML Design and Development provides a solid working introduction to design techniques using today's Unified Modelling Language (UML) standard. Written for those with little or no experience in formal design, this digestible text provides all you need to get control of the software development process within Visual Basic.

The book begins with a tour of UML basics such as case, class, activity and sequence diagrams. It looks at today's iterative software development process and patterns and frameworks for better software reuse. The "framework" offered here uses Microsoft's Distributed iNternet Architecture (DNA) to create a three-tiered application using MTS on the middle tier in a case study for an order entry system.

Starting with requirements analysis, the book provides sample interviews from hypothetical users. This data is then used to construct use case diagrams. Then it's on to interaction, sequence and collaboration diagrams. The sections on class design here are notably strong (with both the traditional CRC cards and UML class diagrams used to model classes). The later chapters of this book turn to implementing the system on Microsoft's DNA platform using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and Remote Data Service (RDS) for database access and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) for scalable transactions.

Besides excellent MTS-enabled sample code to get you started on your own applications, perhaps the best feature of VB6 UML Design and Development is its ability to cover formal design and UML without getting lost in opaque software engineering terminology. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com

UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a powerful notational approach to object-oriented analysis, design and implementation. If you understand and can utilize UML, your object-oriented Visual Basic programming becomes much more logical and effective. UML allows you to design, plan and implement great Visual Basic programs. The ease of learning the fundamentals of Visual Basic often misleads VB programmers. Object-oriented programming, and UML in particular, empowers VB programmers with a system of thinking, designing and implementing their programs in a more professional, robust manner.

UML (Unified Modelling Language) is a powerful notational approach to object-oriented analysis, design and implementation. If you understand and can utilize UML, your object-oriented Visual Basic programming becomes much more logical and effective. UML allows you to design, plan and implement great Visual Basic programs. The ease of learning the fundamentals of Visual Basic often misleads VB programmers. Object-oriented programming, and UML in particular, empowers VB programmers with a system of thinking, designing and implementing their programs in a more professional, robust manner. This textbook is a guide to this complex subject.

VB6 UML can make your VB projects succeed
The purpose of this book is to teach you how to successfully create Visual Basic applications using UML. While doing this, the book will also answer most of your VB programming questions.

Today, a VB programmer must understand the following:

How to model a Visual Basic project using UML

How to convert the UML diagrams into VB code

How to write VB code that is efficient, reusable and manageable

A full range of Microsoft technologies such as MTS, ADO, RDS, ?

Object oriented programming

How to build object hierarchies

How to build data provider (source) classes

How to use disconnected ADO recordsets

This book addresses all of these VB issues, and shows how they relate to each other by tying them all together into one Visual Basic project. The first half of the book will teach you about UML diagrams. The second half of the book will show how to create VB code from these diagrams. The code we write will be for a 3-tier order-entry project. The client components are written using patterns found in the UML diagrams. From these patterns we will create code templates that greatly reduce the time to build the VB project. The example uses data provider classes, ADO disconnected recordsets, MTS server components, and object hierarchies. The style of coding is based on the principles of writing reusable, manageable code. I hope this book will enable you to create great Visual Basic projects.

Jake Sturm has extensive programming experience, throughout all level of software development. He has been involved in every aspect of Visual Basic application development, from simple executables to complicated Client Server applications and a host of Active-X controls. Jake has expanded his programming from simply using VB for an entire project, to include the full range of Microsoft BackOffice products such as SQL server, IIS, and MTS. He has also worked extensively with VBA in both Microsoft Office and ASP pages.

Jake has always viewed programming and project management as a creative process, no different from an artist creating a sculpture or painting. Visual Basic, combined with Microsoft's Back Office products, allows the developer to create a masterpiece.

Presently, Jake is working for Microsoft Corporation as a Consultant.

2001-10-11 Nice try, hopeless editing, errors galore, not good for web

This is a terrible book - I've never seen so many errors (both in explanations and code)... as a result - last Wrox book I buy - take note Mr.Publisher !

The UML is half-decent, good method-extraction from UML diagrams, although extracting the object state from the UML described is very thin - not enough detail for a supposed UML book.

Client-side components are stateful and bizarre - how cany you create an ASP/web interface from these components behind a web-server ? The author says you can - I don't see it ! Poor explanation of ADO related code - if you don't know ADO - forget this book ! And yes, there's room for more detail here if the repetitive code sections were removed - you know it !! Lots of unnecessary calls made in these components to the server-side that don't benefit at all - design flaws all around.

I finished this feeling more confused than when I started.