Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up

A novice can evolve into a pro with this book, which enables readers to produce commercial-quality programs for practical application. Covering features built into both the Professional and Enterprise editions of Visual Basic, Cornell goes beyond competition with extensive coverage on building users' own objects, custom controls, recursion, and distributing commercial programs.

1 Getting Started

1

(18)

2 The Visual Basic Environment and Help System

19

(44)

3 Customizing a Form and Writing Simple Programs

63

(34)

4 First Steps in Building the User Interface

97

(40)

5 First Steps in Programming

137

(56)

6 Displaying Information

193

(26)

7 Controlling Program Flow

219

(36)

8 Built-In Functions

255

(46)

9 Writing Your Own Functions and Procedures

301

(36)

10 Organizing Information via Code

337

(46)

11 Organizing Information via Controls

383

(42)

12 Building Larger Projects

425

(32)

13 VB Objects and an Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

457

(38)

14 Finishing the Interface

495

(68)

15 Tools and Techniques for Testing, Debugging, and Optimization

563

(26)

16 An Introduction to Graphics

589

(58)

17 Monitoring Mouse Activity

647

(28)

18 Basic File Handling

675

(50)

19 File System Controls and File System Objects

725

(20)

20 Communicating with Other Windows Applications

745

(28)

21 Recursion

773

(32)

22 A Survey of Database Development Using Visual Basic

805

(36)

23 Building Your Own ActiveX Controls

841

(20)

24 Visual Basic and the Internet: Building a Special-Purpose Browser

861

(16)

25 Visual Basic and the Internet: VBScript and Dynamic HTML

877

(14)

26 Distributing Your Application: The Package and Deployment Wizard

891

(14)

Index

905

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Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up

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