Building Multimedia Applications With Visual Basic 4

CD-ROM contains custom controls and development tools from level systems and source code and project files from the book.

Covering the latest version of Visual Basic, the authors take readers into the fascinating world of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Learn about multimedia and Windows programming, programming the Windows API, creating multimedia applications for the Internet and World Wide Web and video capturing the editing using Video for Windows.

With the tools and techniques developed in this book, programmers will have at their disposal all they need to develop for today's booming multimedia market. The manual uses short and interesting examples of how to use Windows multimedia capabilities to add sound, animation, and graphics to programs written with Visual Basic.

Three multimedia gurus take you into the fascinating world of the Internet and World Wide Web. You'll learn about multimedia programming, programming the Windows API, creating multimedia applications for the Internet and World Wide Web, and using bare-metal techniques for sound playback and sprite animation.

If you are developing software either as a professional programmer, a student, or simply for fun then it is very likely that you will be working in a Windows environment. If you are, and you are looking to build your own Windows applications, you will find Visual Basic provides an easy and effective means of doing so. This book is written specifically to help users get up and running fast on Visual Basic and focusses on how to develop useful programs quickly and effectively. If you are an undergraduate wanting a simple way to program applications, a professional programmer who needs a broad introduction to Visual Basic 3, or even an amateur programmer interested in building Windows applications, then this book will tell you all you need to know.

After reading Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET, developers will understand how to build and deploy top quality, professionally designed, highly usable Web applications using Visual Basic .NET.

The WinG Microsoft library was specifically designed to help developers develop fast-performing, powerful multimedia and game programs for Windows. This book teaches the reader how to develop state-of-the-art games and multimedia Windows applications by using the WinG library. CD contains source code to the applications developed in the book and various utilities.

Most Visual Basic .NET books are written for experienced object-oriented programmers, but many programmers jumping on the .NET bandwagon are coming from non-object-oriented languages, such as Visual Basic 6.0 or from script programming, such as JavaScript. These programmers, and those who are adopting VB.NET as their first programming language, have been out of luck when it comes to finding a high-quality introduction to the language that helps them get started.That's why Jesse Liberty, author of the best-selling books Programming C# and Programming ASP.NET, has written an entry-level guide to Visual Basic .NET. Written in a warm and friendly manner, this book assumes no prior programming experience, and provides an easy introduction to Microsoft's most popular .NET language.Learning Visual Basic .NET is a complete introduction to VB.NET and object-oriented programming. This book will help you build a solid foundation in .NET, and show how to apply your skills by using hundreds of examples to help you become productive quickly. Learning Visual Basic .NET introduces fundamentals like Visual Studio .NET, a tool set for building Windows and Web applications. You'll learn about the syntax and structure of the Visual Basic .NET language, including operators, classes and interfaces, structs, arrays, and strings. Liberty then demonstrates how to develop various kinds of applications--including those that work with databases--and web services.By the time you've finished Learning Visual Basic .NET, you'll be ready to move on to a more advanced programming guide that will help you create large-scale web and Windows applications.Whether you have a little object-oriented programming experience or you are new to programming altogether, Visual Basic .NET will set you firmly on your way to mastering the essentials of the VB.NET language.