Visual Basic 4 0 Multimedia How To

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.

The easiest way to learn the latest version of Visual Basics is to have an expert show you how to get started. That's what Visual Basic 4 Tutor is all about. This unique package includes a CD-ROM with 19 interactive lessons and hundreds of voice and video segments which take you step by step through the application development process! You learn by seeing and doing! It's everything you need to start developing your own Visual Basic applications - all in one package! Each lesson includes step-by-step multimedia clips, voice-over narration, and detailed notes in the workbook; lesson quizzes test your skills and adjust to strengthen your weak spots; and special multimedia reference allows you to click on the Visual Basic interface to learn more about it.

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

Visual Basic is Microsoft's premier programming language, used by more than three million developers and in 50 million Windows applications Programming pro and veteran Wrox author Bill Sempf has thoroughly overhauled the book's organization and content, making it even more accessible to programming beginners Highlights new VB features and functions, including important advances in compatibility with older VB versions Offers plain-English explanations of variables, constants, loops, VB syntax, forms, controls, objects, and other fundamentals The CD-ROM includes all source code and third-party software tools

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.

Topics in DirectX 8 and Visual Basic.NET Development include networked games, 3D multimedia applications, enable Force Feedback joystick devices in their own applications, multimedia applications that allow for multiple user input devices, and multimedia applications that use music and sound.

Visual Basic .NET made clear! Covers all aspects of VB .NET programming in seven self-contained minibooks: Visual Basic .NET Programming Fundamentals, Advanced Visual Basic .NET Programming, The .NET Editor, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming for the Web, Database Programming, and Graphics and Games Visual Basic is the primary tool of more than fifty percent of all professional developers, so the upgrade to VB .NET represents a major paradigm shift; this handy all-in-one guide gives them easy access to valuable information Guides the reader through getting integrated with the rest of Visual Studio .NET, covers programmatic encryption and other .NET security capabilities, and shows how to program for Web services with VB .NET and ASP.NET Companion Web site includes a must-have bonus appendix that provides parallel VB 6 and VB .NET sample code to help VB programmers make the somewhat difficult transition to .NET

CD-ROM includes: a limited version of the VBPJ VB-CD subscription; third-party custom controls and utilities; source code and project files for applications presented in the book; chapters on optimization and OLE automation.