Visual Basic For Windows 95 Insider

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.

A complete tour of the architecture of the Chicago operating system and how components work together. This is the only book that offers the practical programming advice along with the controversial architectural and hidden features coverage everyone wants to read about.

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.

You're beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put your database skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Access 2010 -- and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! Master essential data management and design techniques Import and link to data from spreadsheets, databases, text files, and other sources Use action queries to quickly insert, update, or delete entire sets of data Create custom forms to capture and display data Design reports to calculate, summarize, and highlight critical data--and learn advanced techniques Automate your application with macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Use Access Services to extend your database application to the Web Try out the sample client and web database applications in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. The sample client and web database applications are provided in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

You’re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put your database skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Access 2007—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! Create tables that support your database design strategy Import and link to data from spreadsheets, text files, databases, and other ODBC data sources Build simple to complex queries to manipulate data Learn advanced techniques for building and customizing user interface forms Design attractive reports to calculate and analyze large sets of data Automate your application with Microsoft Visual Basic(R) for Applications Customize the Office Fluent Ribbon Explore using XML and Windows(R) SharePoint(R) Services to create Web-based applications CD includes: Fully searchable eBook—plus bonus chapters Sample database applications—including query, form, and report examples Articles from the experts: designing databases, understanding SQL, exporting data, and more Links to demos, blogs, and user communities References for finding Access 2003 commands in Access 2007 Windows Vista(R) Product Guide eReference and other eBooks For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

Inside the Windows 95 Registry addresses the needs of both groups of developers by demystifying the registry, showing how the Win32 registry API can be used to get information into and out of the registry, and examining the kinds of system, application, and user information that applications can store in the registry. The book features: Coverage of the registry in both Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.x and 4.0 that allows developers to create 32-bit applications that run on both platforms. Many coding examples in both C and Visual Basic. Numerous undocumented topics, like the registry locking scheme, accessing the Window 95 registry from Win 16 and DOS programs, how the Win32 registry API is implemented in Windows 95, and bugs in the registry API when used for remote registry access under Windows 95. Documentation of a number of registry settings. This, along with the book's thorough discussion of RegEdit and its presentation of graduated techniques for backing up the registry and restoring a damaged registry, makes the book important for system administrators and 'power users' as well as developers. Thorough coverage of Remote Registry Access. The diskette accompanying Inside the Windows 95 Registry features a diverse collection of registry tools and utilities, including RegSpy95, a configurable spying utility that intercepts all calls to the registry from the Windows Virtual Machine Manager. Using RegSpy95, you can see what data Windows 95 and individual applications write to and read from the registry; you can even see what data Windows and applications look for, but fail to find, in the registry.

The book serves as a collection of multi-disciplinary contributions related to Geographic Hypermedia and highlights the technological aspects of GIS. Specifically, it focuses on its database and database management system. The methodologies for modeling and handling geographic data are described. It presents the novel models, methods and tools applied in Spatial Decision Support paradigm.

This authoritative overview covers one of the least-understood aspects of Windows 95--the Registry. This unique volume helps developers go deep into Registry features and issues.