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The April 2000 shipment of the Microsoft
Developers Network (MSDN) Library was a huge disappointment for many when
they discovered it no longer included the second edition of Hardcore
Visual Basic, by Bruce McKinney:
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Editor's Note
Bruce McKinney's Hardcore Visual Basic is now out of
print. The MSDN Library team has removed this book from the Library.
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 I'm
extremely pleased to announce that, at Bruce's urging, Microsoft
Press and MSDN have granted me permission to republish this work here on
MVPS.ORG! We all owe Microsoft a huge thanks for this kind gesture.
I've decompiled the original source from MSDN, and posted it here, at http://vb.mvps.org/hardcore
-- hopefully an easy URL to remember. We're still working on cleaning up a lot
of the pages where MSDN garbled the text by spilling the sidebars and flames
into the main body, so I hope you'll bear with us.
We'd also like to eventually incorporate many of the revisions
published on DevX, provide all/most of the source from the CD, as well as
update with the corrections noted on DevX and in the Knowledge
Base:
Q173840
- Hardcore Visual Basic 2nd Ed. Comments and Corrections
http:// support.microsoft.com / support / kb / articles / Q173 / 8 / 40.ASP
Summary: This article contains corrections, comments, and
information on known errors relating to the Microsoft Press book
"Hardcore Visual Basic, Second Edition," ISBN 1-57231-422-2.
Two technologies are being used to provide this work:
- Java-based: The main one at this time is WebHelp
3 from eHelp
(formerly Blue Sky Software). WebHelp is heavily JavaScript reliant, so I
can't recommend hitting this site in a browser with scripting turned off.
But since it's not an OCX, browsers other than IE (such as Firefox)
can make good use of this version! Also, at this time the WebHelp full-text search engine operates on the
client only. I'm hoping to move this to the server, but in the meantime
clicking on the Search tab will initiate a large download, so think
twice unless you're on a fast connection.
- HtmlHelp: The up-and-coming technology uses the HHCntl.ocx
to provide a bit more efficient navigation, with a much improved treeview.
Of course, only Internet
Explorer (v.4 and above) support ActiveX controls. At this point, there
is no search functionality, but we hope to provide that in the near future.
My thanks to Brad
Martinez for his help putting this together.
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