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

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.

This text enables readers to produce commercial-quality programs for practical application, and includes a section devoted to programming concepts for the novice as well as a section aimed at the more advanced user.

Written by an expert user of Visual Basic as a design tool since the 1.1 version, this book covers all of the essential aspects of client/server development for Visual Basic 6, including security issues, the architecture of the Internet and Intranets in relation to VB6, and more. The CD-ROM includes valuable SQL statements that generate the database schemas and populate the table for Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle 7.X and 8.0 and Sybase SQL Anywhere. Cover title

This program takes students from ground zero (What is a computer language?) to creating useful database-oriented applications. Students learn by doing, writing the code and adding complexity to the same real-world applications throughout. The emphasis is on bottom-line thinking and readable, maintainable codes.

This book provides a rounded resource for Visual Basic 6 programmers, drawing together and updating current practice and augmenting it with field-tested knowledge.

This guide to day-by-day Visual Basic 6 programming tips and techniques is not merely a syntax summary, but a detailed reference on creating code structures with VB6 code and data elements. Includes a tear-out, quick-reference card summarizing the VB6 language.