Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up
Will be published approx. on 16. September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
932 pages
978-0-07-882508-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book helps you build bulletproof programs for Windows and the Internet! Visual Basic 6 has a lot to offer, from its new file handling objects and advanced Internet programming capabilities to its new database features. You can learn to build your own commercial-quality application - not just toy apps - using this comprehensive, hands-on tutorial from expert author Gary Cornell, winner of the prestigious Readers' Choice Award from "Visual Basic Programmer's" journal.This best-selling guide for the beginning and intermediate programmer has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover the newest version of the world's number 1 visual programming tool. Using modular, step-by-step instructions, you will: progress from elementary programming skills to marketable expertise; learn object-oriented programming; create VB Forms for use in Internet Explorer; discover Visual Basic's newest database features; create sophisticated event-driven programs; build you own special-purpose Internet Browser; use the Visual Basic environment to develop programs; discover how to distribute your programs; and unleash the power of graphics programming, OLE, and ActiveX.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
0 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
1755 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-882508-8 (9780078825088)
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Content
Getting started; the visual basic environment; customizing a form -writing a simple programme; first steps in building the user interface; first steps in programming; displaying information; controlling programme flow; built-in functions; building larger projects - projects, procedures and error trapping; organizing information; objects; the interface revisited; finishing the interface; tools and techniques for testing and debugging; an introduction to graphics; monitoring mouse activity; working with files; file system objects and advanced file handling; communicating with other Windows applications; recursion; a survey of database features; building your own database features; visual basic and the Internet - building a special purpose browser; Active-X on the Internet; distributing your application - the setup wizard; working with VBA.