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Visual Basic and the HP e3000 Examples
Visual Basic is a very powerful Rapid Application Development tool .
Here are some examples of using it with the HP e3000.

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The problem

Visual Basic can and is being used in conjunction with the HP e3000 to create applications. The most important opportunity this presents is to leverage existing applications and, in doing so, create reliable applications quickly and inexpensively. Unfortunately, the opportunity to build these applications elude many potential users primarily due to a lack of knowledge of how to "put it all together". Setup for client/server or Web use of existing HP e3000 applications can be very straight forward once you have either done it or been shown how to do it. Few examples exists, however, that show what needs to be done on both the HP 3000 side and the Windows side.

These articles

These articles show how to do some things that, I expect, many people want to do with Visual Basic and the HP e3000:

Starting with any HP e3000 TurboIMAGE database, create a DBE for it and connect it to Windows as an ODBC data source. Generate a Visual Basic program to perform file maintenance on any TurboIMAGE set (ODBC table) of your choice.

Using any existing HP 3000 terminal based application and the WRQ Reflection terminal emulator a GUI front end for the application and Web enable it. This example features building a COM (ActiveX) component to control Reflection access to existing HP 3000 applications. Then using the COM component from VB for client server access and html and Active Server Pages for Web access.

Use Visual Basic to access a TurboIMAGE database using native IMAGE calls (i.e. DBOPEN, DBGET, etc.). Remote Procedure calls are featured in this example.

The MPE files necessary for all examples are contained in this one download.

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