Visual Basic 5 Bootcamp
Everything You Need to Pass Microsoft's Visual Basic 5 Certification
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Mixed media product
640 pages
978-0-07-913671-8 (ISBN)
Description
Based on a series of seminars, this package includes lessons, exercises and example projects. It prepares novices and seasoned programmers to march into the Microsoft VB certification exam and pass it, or simply to improve their Visual Basic skills. There are numerous sample test questions and special "gotchas" to avoid during VB development. For users of previous versions, all the new features and enhanced performance aspects of VB5 have been flagged. The CD-ROM features: exercises and source code; comparisons of VB5 to VB4, in HTML format for convenient searching in an Internet browser; and sample tests with immediate Web grading of results.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
150 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
1260 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-913671-8 (9780079136718)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction to Visual Basic: properties, events and methods; application construction; data types and scoping; writing functions and subroutines; Visual Basic for application language; manipulating VB's design environment; adding help and building a report; collecting components for testing and distribution files - DLLs, VBXs OCSx, EXEs, INIs; creating a distributable disk; VB tips and tricks; introducing to using OLE with MS Office; using VB class modules and custom objects; error handling and debugging; database access strategies; performance considerations when constructing VB applications; special "gotchas" to avoid during development. Part 2 Latest version of VB: new feature overview; migrating to VB5; forms as objects; class module construction; inside OLE automation; OLE servers development fundamentals; understanding collections and containment; advanced multi-class OLE server construction techniques; managing remote and local OLE servers; client/server access solutions with VB; client/server techniques with DAO direct ODBC; extending VB with add-ins. Part 3 (The rest of the book is intended for developers who know the previous version. All the new features and enhanced performance aspects are covered in this part).