IRON PYTHON - Using Microsoft.Visual Basic Interaction to create COM Objects: Book 1

I am on the highway to heaven

Anyone who remembers me during my days when I worked for Microsoft knew me as the guy to go to for help with the hard cases. I built a reputation of resolving issues and finding ways to make something work when no one else could.
Ever since I started programming back in 1979, I realized that “programming” and being a “programmer” seemed to fight nicely into my own personal genetic sense of adventure and travel. Being related to Mr. Clark of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition kind of helped in assembling such flights of fantasy, I suppose.
Being a natural at discovering solutions to problems and, from a technical standpoint, exploring new and undocumented software territory – even if I was not putting myself into the pickle jar of the new wild frontier – it did seem at the time to be just as challenging, rugged and exhilarating at the time.
And of course, you met your own cast of characters. Some Mentors, some slave drivers, others untrustworthy.
Even a few were found along the trail in shallow graves. Tombstones: Here lies harry who tried, played office politics and died when he couldn’t code himself out of a matchbox.
R.I.P.
I find sanctity knowing that very few programmers have become rich or famous or both at the same time. It delights me to know what I know and realize no one cares.
I find comfort in that. A mountain man with stories to tell and the scars to prove it. Only the wind whistling about is willing to hear.
You are reading this only because you are either a Visual Basic programmer wanting to grab my gold prospector’s mining pan in hopes there is something here you can take home and capitalize on.
And I am on the other side of information version of the prospector’s mining pan sifting through the mud, sand and pebbles hoping to look down and see some shinny yellow metal particles I can share with you.
So, what is in this book anyway?
Well, considering I have finished writing this book already, I can proudly say a whole heck of a lot of coding examples with descriptions.