Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572318635 ISBN 13: 9781572318632

Publisher: Microsoft Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Created by the Microsoft Visual Basic development team in convenient, easy-to-digest print form, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide is a comprehensive resource for beginning to intermediate users. It is designed to help you get the best possible results from one of Microsoft's most popular programming systems for Windows. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide will help you learn programming fundamentals, create your first Visual Basic program, and optimize and distribute applications. Taken from the Programmer's Guide content available in the online documentation, but available in printed form only from Microsoft Press, the book provides vital insights into creating applications for stand-alone desktops, networked PCs, the Internet and intranets, and the components market.

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Review

Written by the developers of Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer's Guide gives you a solid overall grounding in the language and the major tasks you will undertake in the development environment.

The book is divided into two parts and a series of appendices. The first part introduces the basic concepts of the Visual Basic environment and explains the form- and event-driven paradigm. Five chapters later, the authors explain forms, controls, and projects and give a quick primer on the unique structure of the Visual Basic language, its data types, and its use of functions, procedures, and code modules.

The second part, "What You Can Do with Visual Basic," makes up the majority of the book. A chapter on user-interface creation illustrates how to create single and multiple-document interfaces and how to implement dialogs and toolbars, and presents some general user-interface tips. Following chapters cover each of the Visual Basic custom controls, present advanced project-compilation concepts, and introduce the object-oriented features of Visual Basic.

The guide then presents ActiveX components, event and error handling, text and graphics manipulation, performance optimization, and other crucial topics. Four appendices spell out Visual Basic's limits, coding conventions, compiler options, and how to add help to your programs. No matter what your skill level, this programmer's guide will become a frequently visited companion. --Stephen Plain

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572318635
• ISBN 13: 9781572318632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 959
• Editor: Microsoft Corporation