Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Windows® DNA Programming in 21 Days

Summary

Today's lesson taught you how to create a COM component in Visual Basic. You looked at some initial settings for a project and how to work with version compatibility. You added code, compiled the component, and successfully called it from a test application. Through this you also kept your model and your project synchronized between Visual Modeler and Visual Basic. SourceSafe was used to assist versioning, and finally the code was published to the Visual Component Manager. More information can be found on all these topics on Microsoft's MSDN Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com.

Day 10 will look at the ability to add transactional support to your COM components. With business and data processes, this becomes vital. If two business processes ...