Developing applications with Visual Basic and UML

Guided by his own experiences as a developer applying UML and VB, the author provides
clear explanations of the fundamentals of UML while also examining and illustrating the
often misrepresented object-oriented properties of Visual Basic. In addition, the book
incorporates in-depth information on developing VB applications utilizing DNA concepts,
incorporating technologies such as DCOM and MTS, and integrating Web tools such as
ASP, VB Script, and JavaScript to Internet-enable Visual Basic applications. A significant
case study runs throughout the book, leading the reader through the lifecycle of a
project—from requirements analysis to modeling and prototyping through finalizing the
architecture and generating code. Through this study, the author demonstrates the design
benefits of UML and shows how to translate a UML specification into Visual Basic code.

The author includes detailed coverage of the following topics:

• Uncovering the events for which an application must be responsible
  
• Modeling use cases with UML
  
• Using Rational Rose to manage UML artifacts
  
• Translating the object-based UML class diagram to a relational design supported by
  SQL Server or Oracle
  
• Transitioning from classes and use cases to the UML's dynamic models, the
  sequence and collaboration diagrams
  
• Mapping UML to Visual Basic deliverables
  
• Generating code from the UML class diagram
  
• Distributed technology solutions based on Distributed Internet Architecture (DNA)
  using Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and Microsoft Transaction
  Server (MTS)
  
• Web-enabling VB applications using Active Server Pages (ASP), VBScript,
  
• JavaScript, and Microsoft's Visual InterDev

With the information and expert techniques presented in this book, readers can significantly
enhance their Visual Basic programming skills as well as their overall understanding of how
an effective development process impacts the quality of the final application.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: The Project Dilemma
Chapter 2: Visual Basic, Object-Oriented, and the UML
Chapter 3: Getting the Project Started
Chapter 4: Use Cases
Chapter 5: Classes
Chapter 6: Building an Early Prototype
Chapter 7: The Dynamic Elements of the Application
Chapter 8: The Technology Landscape
Chapter 9: Data Persistence: Storing the Objects
Chapter 10: Applying the Infrastructure
Chapter 11: Generating Code from the UML Class Diagram (Part 1)
Chapter 12: Generating Code from the UML Class Diagram (Part 2)
Chapter 13: Creating a Distributed Implementation: DCOM and
MTS
Chapter 14: Alternative Interfaces: The Internet
Appendix A: Estimating Project Using Use Cases
Appendix B: Adding Additional Functionality to Rational Rose Data
Definition Language Capability
Appendix C: An Object-Oriented Primer
Appendix D: Component Object Model and COM+
Appendix E: Object-Oriented Project Plan
Appendix F: Sample Project Output
Index