Using Visual Basic 6

Visual Basic 6 Complete is a one-of-a-kind computer book-valuable both for its broad content and its low price. This book contains the essentials you need to know about programming with Visual Basic and VBA, for use in building Windows applications, scripting, and extending and integrating Office applications. With Visual Basic 6 Complete, you'll learn all about building Visual Basic applications - from working with forms and controls to using the Windows API and debugging Web applications -- and you'll quickly take advantage of all that Visual Basic has to offer. Get up to speed with Visual Basic, then move on to scripting objects, VBA, and building internet applications and interactive Web sites. As you become more proficient with Visual Basic, you'll find the Visual Basic 6 Language Reference to be an invaluable daily tool. This comprehensive reference quickly puts every built-in function and statement at your fingertips. Visual Basic 6 Complete introduces you to the work of some of the finest Sybex authors, so you'll know where to go to learn even more about what's possible with Visual Basic. Inside: Introduction to Visual Basic * Mastering the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) * Working with forms and controls * Understanding object-oriented programming * Building sample VB applications Practical Visual Basic * Debugging Visual Basic applications * Extending VB with the Windows API * Accessing the Windows Registry * Building screen savers, and displaying an icon in the system tray with VB Visual Basic Scripting and the Internet * Adding scripting support to your application * Scripting objects * Building Web-based applications with VB Visual Basic for Applications * An Introduction to VBA * The Word Object model * The Access Object model revisited * Professional development with VBA Visual Basic References * Complete Visual Basic 6 Language Reference * Visual Basic 6 Function Reference

Reselman, a senior software engineer at Gateway 2000, has written an easy-to-use reference format that allows novice users to find information quickly. Web site contains the source code and completed applications from the book.

Doing Objects in Visual Basic 2005 is the authoritative guide to object-oriented design, architecture, and development with Visual Basic 2005. Author Deborah Kurata is the original pioneer in building object-oriented applications with Visual Basic. In this book she continues to offer clarity and deliver best practices for using object-oriented techniques in Visual Basic 2005. She has been honored with Microsoft’s prestigious MVP designation for her expertise and contributions to the community. Kurata begins with a concise introduction to core object-oriented concepts and the Visual Basic 2005 features that support them. Next she introduces a pragmatic and agile approach to designing effective applications along with an application framework. From there she walks you through the process of building the user interface, business logic, and data access layers of an application, highlighting key VB 2005 techniques and best practices. Kurata’s step-by-step “building along” activities provide you with deep hands-on mastery; your finished application can serve as the starting point for virtually any custom project. This book Shows how the tools in Visual Studio 2005 combined with a solid object-oriented approach can help minimize the complexities of software development and improve productivity Clearly explains the fundamental concepts of object development: classes, inheritance, interfaces, scenarios, and more Presents a pragmatic agile software design methodology to help analyze and design applications for the real world Covers building the user interface layer using a base form class, programmatic interfaces, and object binding Details building the business logic layer using a base business object class and validation rules Demonstrates how to build the data access layer using ADO.NET Provides best practices and tips for experienced .NET developers, those new to .NET, and for those developers moving from VB6 to .NET

Designed to be relevant to the first time programmer as well as those adept in the use of Visual Basic, this book is broken into four sections, which set the scene and introduce the tools and techniques, including the advanced features.

A tutorial guide to using Visual Basic for Web development, this text shows programmers the quickest and easiest way to create Web applications. It makes Web development easier and faster. Special features include a CD with ready-to-run applets and productivity tools.

Visual Basic 6 Unleashed provides comprehensive coverage of the most sought after topics in Visual Basic programming. Visual Basic 6 Unleashed provides a means for a casual level Visual Basic programmer to quickly become productive with the new release of Visual Basic. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive reference to virtually all the topics that are used in today's leading-edge Visual Basic applications. This book looks to take advantage of the past success of the Unleashed series along with the extremely large size of the Visual Basic market.