Essential Visual Basic 6.0 fast

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

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Series: Essential Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Visual Basic is a mature and powerful, integrated development environment which allows you to create professional Windows applications. It has an intuitive user interface, an extensive set of controls and excellent debugging facilities, so, whether you are a professional programmer or a student, this book tells you everything you need to know to write professional applications for Windows using Visual Basic 6.0 - fast. Version 6.0 is the latest version of Visual Basic and includes all of the facilities of earlier versions combined with an extensive set of new controls. These greatly extend the capabilities, especially for writing database and web-based applications. Once you've read this book, you'll know all about: - The Visual Basic language - The standard Visual Basic controls - Handling control events - Using data aware controls - ActiveX controls - Writing web-based applications. Essential VisualBasic 6.0- fast 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-x
Why Use Visual Basic 6.0?....Pages 1-4
The Visual Basic IDE....Pages 5-14
The Intrinsic Controls....Pages 15-24
Handling Events....Pages 25-37
Controlling Program Flow....Pages 38-50
Variables and Operators....Pages 51-63
Using Menus....Pages 64-70
Forms and Dialogs....Pages 71-87
Intrinsic and ActiveX Controls....Pages 88-109
Mouse and Keyboard Events....Pages 110-119
Functions and Procedures....Pages 120-132
Object-Oriented Programming....Pages 133-139
Debugging....Pages 140-150
The Visual Data Manager....Pages 151-165
The Data Form Wizard....Pages 166-173
ADO and Data-Bound Controls....Pages 174-182
ADO Data Control Events....Pages 183-189
ActiveX Documents....Pages 190-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-205

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques