Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming

✍ Scribed by John Connell (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 870
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming introduces you to databases and takes you all the way through to the latest ADO technologies in Visual Basic 6. Step by step, this book will help you to build working database components and applications in Visual Basic. Whether you want to work with databases on your desktop, get access to legacy data, or program database access across the Internet, this is the book that will get you started.

This book provides you with all the practical knowledge and skills you need to build a solid foundation in Microsoft Access and Visual Basic database programming. This comprehensive reference offers thorough coverage of object-oriented programming, including how to create data handling classes and ActiveX controls for code reusability; how to effectively use DAO, ADO, ASP, and SQL; and how to take data mining to the next level.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-xviii
What this Book is About....Pages 1-8
What Is a Database?....Pages 9-38
Meet the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Data Wizard....Pages 39-82
Programming the Data Control....Pages 83-126
Designing a User Interface for the Data Control....Pages 127-166
Programming a Bulletproof User Interface....Pages 167-216
Completing the User Interface....Pages 217-270
Building a Data Control Class Module....Pages 271-342
Getting the Data You Want from the Database....Pages 343-386
Database Design, Construction and Analysis....Pages 387-440
Programming The Address Book....Pages 441-512
Universal Data Access Using ADO....Pages 513-576
Creating ADO Data Bound ActiveX Controls....Pages 577-652
ADO and Active Server Pages....Pages 653-712
Advanced ADO Programming — Data Mining....Pages 713-764
Making our Data Available Universally....Pages 765-818
Where Next?....Pages 819-824
Back Matter....Pages 825-861

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems