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Programming Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
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by Scott Roberts
Sales Rank: 1048387
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Paperback: 511 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Pr June 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735607818
ISBN-13: 978-0735607811
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.8 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Book Description
This professional-level resource demonstrates how to quickly bring browser functionality to business applications using the Internet Explorer 5 development platform. Readers investigate core techniques for exploiting version 5 enhanced programmability-including scripting with DHTML, hosting the WebBrowser control, and adding functionality with HTCs (HTML components) and HTAs (HTML applications). The book illustrates key concepts with code constructed in Visual Basic(r), Visual C++(r), and HTML/DHMTL script to demonstrate the range of tools, techniques, and outcomes. It also provides practical insights into handling common development challenges, with information gleaned directly from Microsoft Product Support.
Customer Reviews & Comments
If you're a VB programmer and want to automate Explorer, just somebody who wants to learn a [little] bit more about what's under the hood, or an advanced programmer who is willing to pay for a little push, this may be the book for you. If you are hardcore: This is not a great book (by almost every metric); I lament that, as a technical book, it does not [even] compare favorably to MS Press books such as Rogerson's now-semi-classic Inside COM (from three years ago) or [let alone] the great Ray Duncan's Adv. MSDOS Programming (from twelve years ago; ack!); it's a bad sign that MS Press can no longer deliver for such an important platform (esp. if they want to compete with the Mozilla platform where source is avail.). Roughly half the book is devoted to what is essentially web page development ([MS]HTML, scripting, [MS]DHTML) which is covered [better] in many other books; the *presentation* *is* oriented to development of applications with browser front-ends, but its a waste of space. The rest of the book is a subset of documentation and examples available at msdn.microsoft.com/workshop. Needless to say, there is no mention of cross-browser development issues and API's (e.g. NS plugin API or DOM compatibility). The redundancy in the book may be useful for getting started if you can spare the cash (to better see how the COM-bone connects to the registry-bone connects to the web-accessory-bone, etc.). Just remember that there are many powerfull API's (= things you can do, but arn't in the book) that are [poorly] documented elsewhere or not at all; see msdn and the relevant newsgroups. This book is a missed opportunity.
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