Exploring Visual Basic is designed to teach problem solving skills by demonstrating how to write programs in Visual Basic. The book is written for a computer novice and assumes no previous knowledge of Visual Basic or Windows 95. Introduces the Macro Recorder which records a set of Visual Basic commands for the user. By introducing the programming language this way, users are able to get results that are immediately usable. A series of hands-on exercises leads the reader through each concept. Each tutorial is illustrated with large, full-color, screen captures that are clear and easy to read. For users and programmers of Visual Basic or computer programming students.
This information-packed STEP BY STEP course—based on the best-selling first edition—is the easiest, fastest way to teach yourself how to write 32-bit Microsoft® Windows®–based programs with Visual Basic®. Work through every lesson to complete the full course, or do just the lessons you want to learn exactly the skills you need. Either way, you receive professional Visual Basic 6.0 training at your own pace, with real-world examples and practice files to help you master core programming skills. Topics covered include: Getting Started with Visual Basic: Opening and running a Visual Basic program, writing your first program, and working with controls, menus, and dialog boxes Programming fundamentals: Working with Visual Basic variables and operators and using decision structures, loops, and timers Creating the perfect user interface: Working with forms, printers, and error handlers and adding artwork and special effects Managing corporate data: Using modules and procedures, exploring text files and processing strings, managing Microsoft Access databases, and connecting to Microsoft Office Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition tools and techniques: Word processing with the Rich TextBox control, displaying progress and status information, using the Multimedia MCI control, and using the Windows API Web programming fundamentals: Downloading files with the Internet Transfer control, displaying HTML documents with Internet Explorer, designing Dynamic HTML (DHTML) pages, and adding Toolbox elements and ActiveX® Controls to DHTML pages Advanced database programming: Managing data with the FlexGrid control and exploring ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Upgrade notes: What’s new and improved in Visual Basic .NET and how to plan an upgrade
The authors and the publishers of this book are grateful to the readers for their overwhelming support for the earlier editions. In this edition, the readers of the book are introduced to the development of a small package for online test. Each chapter begins with objectives and a brief overview. Numerous coding examples as well as small hands-on projects with thorough guidance appear throughout. Chapter-1: Walks the reader through preliminaries of Visual Basic. Various elements of VB such as standard tool bar, form design window, form layout window are explained with ample screen shots. Chapter-2: Takes the reader through the data types, naming conventions, operators, built in functions, and control constructs in an organized manner. Chapter-3: Explains standard controls such as frames, check boxes, option buttons, combo boxes, shapes, lines and timer in a systematic way. Chapter-4: Gleans through multiple forms, menus, MDI forms and control arrays in a methodical fashion. Chapter-5: Covers standard code modules, image, picture box and custom controls with illustrative screen snapshots. Chapter-6: Explores various drawing tools provided by VB. The potentials of Graphic methods have been clearly explained. Chapter-7: Elucidates file-handling techniques. Chapter-8: Introduces VB database handling techniques which includes the powerful Jet database Engine. Chapter-9: Expedites visual basic Wizards, Active X components, Data environment and data reports. Chapter-10: Deals with some interesting programs of engineering interest. Chapter -11: Takes the reader through a development session. This chapter is intended to motivate the students to develop inkling for GUI based software development. On online tester is developed in a step-by-step manner with a good number of screen captures.
This Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 book is designed for two types of learning paths. Students may use it as an introduction to programming, or follow a certification path. The course is correlated to the Microsoft Certified Professional exam criteria (exams 70-175 and 70-176) Using the additional activities in either the Certification Guide or the Activities Workbook, the course can be boosted up to two semesters. As a stand alone, the book contains 75+ hours of instruction--great for a semester. The Certification Guide ancillary provides additional support for preparation for the MCP exams.
If you confront common coding problems or want to learn by example the tremendous capabilities of Visual Basic, you've come to the right book. This is the newly expanded and updated fifth edition of the classic, for everyone from advanced students and intermediate programmers to corporate developers and consultants. As usual, John Craig and co-author Jeff Webb lead you through the exciting new possibilities of the latest version of Visual Basic, with special emphasis on the hot topics of Internet development and data access models. Here's the help you need in the shape you want. You get a ton of code samples covering an inviting assortment of topics, clear and direct answers to a host of common programming problems, and adventures into the most exciting possibilities of the newest version of Visual Basic. If you use Visual Basic, you'll want the newest edition of this essential cookbook.
Visual Basic 6 Complete is a one-of-a-kind computer book-valuable both for its broad content and its low price. This book contains the essentials you need to know about programming with Visual Basic and VBA, for use in building Windows applications, scripting, and extending and integrating Office applications. With Visual Basic 6 Complete, you'll learn all about building Visual Basic applications - from working with forms and controls to using the Windows API and debugging Web applications -- and you'll quickly take advantage of all that Visual Basic has to offer. Get up to speed with Visual Basic, then move on to scripting objects, VBA, and building internet applications and interactive Web sites. As you become more proficient with Visual Basic, you'll find the Visual Basic 6 Language Reference to be an invaluable daily tool. This comprehensive reference quickly puts every built-in function and statement at your fingertips. Visual Basic 6 Complete introduces you to the work of some of the finest Sybex authors, so you'll know where to go to learn even more about what's possible with Visual Basic. Inside: Introduction to Visual Basic * Mastering the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) * Working with forms and controls * Understanding object-oriented programming * Building sample VB applications Practical Visual Basic * Debugging Visual Basic applications * Extending VB with the Windows API * Accessing the Windows Registry * Building screen savers, and displaying an icon in the system tray with VB Visual Basic Scripting and the Internet * Adding scripting support to your application * Scripting objects * Building Web-based applications with VB Visual Basic for Applications * An Introduction to VBA * The Word Object model * The Access Object model revisited * Professional development with VBA Visual Basic References * Complete Visual Basic 6 Language Reference * Visual Basic 6 Function Reference
In the authors' words, "Our main aim in writing this book is to write the most advanced book yet available on Microsoft Visual Basic." Written from the perspective of the professional Visual Basic developer, "Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic, 2ND Edition" explores all the possibilities open to a developer using Visual Basic as his or her primary client/server development tool. New to this edition is material on new data access technologies, accessibility issues for the physically challenged, increased support for IIS, BackOffice and mixed language programming, and enterprise support for server side objects, such as the component gallery and Microsoft Transaction Server. The accompanying CD-ROM contains sample code and valuable utilities developed and tested by the authors, The Mandelbrot Set.
