Visual Basic 6 Secrets

Learn the behind-the-scenes tricks and techniques that will take your Visual Basic skills to the next level of programming excellence. Davis provides all the secrets readers need to create sophisticated, robust, full-featured, commercial quality Visual Basic applications.

Gary Entsminger provides an inside view on developing sophisticated Windows applications, using advanced techniques for exploiting the programming system and language. This revised edition covers important new features introduced with Version 3.0 of Visual Basic. Two disks include source code for all examples in formats for Version 1, 2, and 3 of Visual Basic.

This is a book about general principles of good programming practice for complete novices of all ages.

Visual Basic 6 Master Reference includes explanations for over 1000 keywords, statements, functions, concepts, objects, and controls, as well as associated events, methods, and properties - everything you need to create fully logo-compliant Windows 98 applications. Find the information you need in record time! This comprehensive reference is organized alphabetically with cross-references throughout. You can look up topics by: Concept - Look up ActiveX Controls and find out what they are and how to use them. Control - Look up Animation and discover its description along with its general and custom properties, methods, and events. Object - Look up App and quickly get all of its 29 properties and what they represent. Property - Look up ActiveControl and explore its syntax and how it is used in a form. Event - Look up AmbientChanged and learn which objects receive AmbientChanged events and how they obtain them. This unique Visual Basic encyclopedia provides code examples throughout, including many full programs that enable you to see specific Visual Basic items in action.

This title prepares readers to develop desktop applications with VB6 and to pass the new MCSD exam #70-176 (Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0). The exclusive tear-out Cram Sheet contains acronyms, tips, and memory joggers to improve recall immediately before the exam.

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.