Building Windows 95 Applications With Visual Basic 4

Now users can learn how to write powerful Windows 95 applications with Visual Basic. Aiming his book at the intermediate to advanced Visual Basic programmer, Clayton Walnum shows how to effectively use the new Windows 95 controls, modify Windows 3.1 program code to take advantage of Windows 95 features, and more. The CD contains source code plus Windows 95 API libraries.

This newly revised and completely up-to-date edition takes you from the fundamentals of Visual Basic through advanced topics. It provides more than 60 pages of answers to the most commonly asked questions about Visual Basic--direct from Microsoft--saving you time and money by not having to wait for technical support help over the phone.

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

An innovative guide to all the hidden corridors--the tricks, traps and shortcuts--that you always sensed were built into Visual Basic for Windows but never learned from any documentation or books. Not for the computer user born yesterday, this guide takes experienced users to a new level of computer skills.

Anyone developing software today is likely to be doing so in a Windows environment and is likely to be using Visual Basic as the development language. This Essential guide focuses on the basics of the language instead of burdening the eager user with small details contained in the manuals. Providing a clear and precise explanation of the most important features of VB5, the book allows readers to develop programs with the same heavyweight feel as the best programs from Microsoft and others.

The primary goal of Doing Objects in Visual Basic is to provide a pragmatic approach to designing and building Visual Basic 4.0 applications. Instead of providing "tips and tricks", this book lays out a framework for development in VB 4.0 with an emphasis on architecture design and approach. The disk provides applications developed in the book and a useful template.

This troubleshooting and time-saving guide to Visual Basic presents hundreds of typical programming problems and practical solutions in an easy-to-use reference format, allowing even beginners to create VB programs quickly, and divulges little-known tricks, workarounds, and enhancements used by pros.

Currently there are more than 500,000 programmers worldwide who use Visual Basic and Microsoft Office to develop applications. This is a great book for beginner and intermediate Visual Basic programmers and an excellent training guide for in-house corporate developers. The tutorial/reference focuses on automating objects--mostly Office 95 objects--from Visual Basic for Windows 95.