Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic

"As you go through these pages you'll find, over and over again, that Vince and John have uncovered astounding new ways to tackle real-world problems. You'll also find that they don't hesitate to tell you when VB is all screwed up and what you can do to work around the problems." -From the Foreword by Woody Leonhard Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic is the definitive reference to how all the functions, statements, methods, properties, and events in VB really work. Visual Basic experts Vincent Chen and John Montgomery show you which commands to use, which to avoid, and which ones don't work quite the way the documentation says they do. You'll learn about common and not-so-common problems and "features" and how to work around them. Plus you'll get Vince and John's accelerated course in Visual Basic: everything from the basics to writing Add-Ins, creating databases, using OLE, communicating with Windows itself, and optimizing performance and memory. Organized for easy reference, Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic is essential reading for anyone who's serious about programming in VB.Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic also includes a bonus disk with: * a skeleton to use in creating your own Visual Basic Add-Ins * a complete example of how to write an OLE client and server with VB * Styles -- a complete (and practical!
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