Essential Visual Basic 6. 0 fast

Publication date 2 January 2000

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science (68-01) Theory of programming languages (68N15)

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This book assumes that you are familiar with using Windows applications, such as spreadsheets and databases, but does not assume that you have any prior knowledge of using Visual Basic or a similar Integrated Development Environment (IDE): it is therefore suitable for the beginner. If you have some experience of programming, particularly in using an IDE, you will find that this book allows you to speed through the introductory material in the early chapters to the more complex aspects in the later chapters. If you want to learn how to develop applications in Visual Basic, but do not have time to read a 1000-page book, you will find that Essential Visual Basic 6.0. Fast is an excellent way to learn how to develop applications in Visual Basic quickly. This book contains many examples to illustrate the ideas it covers; you can read through from the beginning to the end, but where possible each chapter has been written to be self contained, so that if, for example, you want to find out how to create a menu system you can just read that chapter without the need to read the preceding chapters. If you are unfamiliar with Visual Basic you should start at the beginning and work through the first six chapters which deal with the basics of the Visual Basic IDE and language. Chapters 7 to 11 cover additional aspects of Visual Basic including using menue dialogs and forms, ActiveX controls, mouse and keyboard events and how to create and use procedures and functions. Chapter 12 deals with creating and using classes and objects. Visual Basic is not an object-oriented language but it does have some object-oriented features. Chapter 13 covers debugging. As the applications you develop become more complex you will need to use the excellent debugging facilities of Visual Basic to find and fix bugs. Chapters 14 to 17 cover the development of database applications. Particular importance has been given to this area since virtually all real-world applications usual databases. Chapter 18 shows how you can create ActiveX documents, which are Visual Basic applications with may contain hypertext links and are run within a container such as an Internet browser. This book does not cover every aspect of Visual Basic: if it did it would be ten time its size and take much longer to read. What this book does is focus on the most widely used features of Visual Basic that you need to start to develop Visual Basic application fast.

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