Visual Basic for Network Applications
Learn how to add network functionality to your Visual Basic applications.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Visual Basic for Network Applications
Appendix A: Internet Resources
General search engines
| Search for the network term then narrow down with VB | ||
|---|---|---|
| Site | Location | Comments |
| Excite | www.excite.com | Excellent search engine that provides QBE and links responses to related sites demonstrates the full version of the search engine available for your own Web server |
| InfoSeek | www.infoseek.com | One of the most comprehensive directories of Web pages and resources on the Internet |
| Yahoo! | www.yahoo.com | Provides an excellent listing for most Web sites and FTP stores on the Internet |
| Lycos | www.lycos.com | An excellent search engine that provides very good coverage of the Internet |
| Yell | www.yell.co.uk | A search directory with a UK bias, provided by the Yellow Pages |
| Yahoo! UK | www.yahoo.co.uk | A tailored UK version of the well-known search engine |
| AltaVista | www.altavista.digital.com | Very good directory with entries for most Web sites and FTP stores uses a search engine similar to the Private Extensions product available for your own Web server |
Newsgroups
| Finding newsgroups that relate to Visual Basic | ||
|---|---|---|
| Source | Location | Comments |
| DejaNews | www.dejanews.com | An excellent directory of all the news-groups that make up Usenet lets you search for newsgroups that cover your subject area |
| TileNet News | www.tilenet.news.com | Another good search directory that lets you find the newsgroup of your choice |
Mailing lists
| Finding mailing lists that relate to Visual Basic | ||
|---|---|---|
| Liszt | www.liszt.com | Directory that covers just about every mailing list together with a description and joining details |
Standards
| Standards and defining companies | ||
|---|---|---|
| Company | Location | Comments |
| NCSA | hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu | The company that started the WWW process and lists resources and standards for the... |
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