Advanced Visual Basic Techniques

Accompanying CD-ROM contains extensive source code samples to enable all techniques without external DLLs. It also provides integrated type library add-ins for creating and editing referenced libraries, modifying binary compatibility files, and customizing the type libraries that VB generated for ActiveX components.

Essential skills for the Visual Basic programmer to create high-powered business applications. This book shows professional Visual Basic programmers how to master high-level techniques for developing applications with Visual Basic 5. Teaching by example, author Rod Stephens demonstrates advanced methods for object, database, client/server, and Internet programming. He provides fifteen fully functioning applications that each teach a different set of programming skills. CD-ROM contains all fully functioning applications included in the book.

Essential skills for the Visual Basic programmer to create high-powered business applications. This book shows professional Visual Basic programmers how to master high-level techniques for developing applications with Visual Basic 5. Teaching by example, author Rod Stephens demonstrates advanced methods for object, database, client/server, and Internet programming. He provides fifteen fully functioning applications that each teach a different set of programming skills. CD-ROM contains all fully functioning applications included in the book.

Now programmers can learn how to take full advantage of Visual Basic. This book covers the latest version of Visual Basic, and includes techniques for using Visual Basic and its tools, applications design, and advanced techniques. The accompanying disk includes programs that illustrate how to develop applications using both Visual Basic and Windows.

Get ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005’s tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code. In this hands-on book, you’ll get proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. Expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing will help you master the advanced features of this language. You’ll learn how to make writing code more effective so that you can quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. In the Fifth Edition, Advanced Visual Basic 2010 helps those who are familiar with the fundamentals of Visual Basic 2010 programming harness its power for more advanced uses. Coverage of sophisticated tools and techniques used in the industry today include various database, ASP.NET, LINQ, WPF and Web Services topics. After studying the book and completing the programming exercises, students should be able to create small- to medium-sized Windows and Web applications that use databases. They will also gain essential concepts in object-oriented programming, event-driven programming, and test-driven development. Each subject is presented in an understandable style that makes this book a leader in the field.

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.

This vibrant, prehistoric-themed bulletin board set includes: -- *5 illustrated panels (24" x 17” each assembling into a 10' x 17" display) *A resource guide