Programmes, business applications and Visual Basic; Visual Basic projects - project structure and VB's programming tools; representing data - constants and variables; performing calculations and manipulating data - expressions; specifying alternate courses of action - selection statements; reducing programme complexity - general sub procedures and programmer defined functions; repeating processing tasks - loop structures; accessing business data - processing databases; handling lists of data - arrays; organizing related data items - programmer-defined types and object classes; additional controls - menu; common dialogue and picture controls; appendices.