Essential Visual Basic 5.0 Fast : Includes ActiveX Control Development

✍ Scribed by John Cowell BSc (Hons), MPhil, PhD (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Series: Essential Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Visual Basic has sold over 4 million copies and is the most widely used development environment for creating Windows 95 applications. Developers enjoyed using the powerful, intuitive facilities in version 4 but wanted more. Version 5 is the latest and b est version which significantly extends the power of previous versions and offers a range of new features, in particular Active X component development. If you are new to Visual Basic or an existing Visual Basic user Essential Visual Basic 5.0 fast is written to give you the critical information that you need to write object oriented applications in Visual Basic 5 fast. New features, in particular how to write Active X components and how to use the Visual Data Manager, are covered in detail, with many examples. Essential Visual Basic 5 is designed for professional developers or students who need to learn the maximum in the minimum time and to develop applications fast.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Why Use Visual Basic 5?....Pages 1-6
The Visual Basic Environment....Pages 7-16
Shrinking and Growing....Pages 17-29
Managing Projects and Files....Pages 30-36
Standard Controls....Pages 37-51
Buying a New PC....Pages 52-61
Displaying Text....Pages 62-75
Declaring and Using Variables....Pages 76-85
Controlling Program Flow....Pages 86-93
Procedures and Functions....Pages 94-97
Debugging....Pages 98-106
Object Oriented Programming....Pages 107-117
ActiveX Controls....Pages 118-140
Creating and Using Menus....Pages 141-147
Using Custom Controls....Pages 148-158
Creating and Using Graphics....Pages 159-171
Mouse and Keyboard Events....Pages 172-178
Databases....Pages 179-199
Menu and Toolbar Reference....Pages 200-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-235

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques

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