Synopsis
With the launch of Microsoft's much-anticipated Visual Basic release 5.0, Windows programmers will be looking for expert, inside documentation on many of its hottest new features (add-ins, wizards, OLE, and ActiveX linking technologies). This book, written by the experts, gives coverage on all this and more. The CD-ROM contains code, sample wizards and add-ins, sample ActiveX apps and various VB shareware and utilities.
From the Back Cover
Visual Basic 5 is a major advance for developers, bringing the power of object-oriented programming and ActiveX controls to the highly-productive Visual Basic development environment. Modeled on the best-selling classic Core Java, this book is specifically designed to help expert programmers to become equally sophisticated VB5 developers as quickly as possible, by building on their existing skills and knowledge.Introduces Visual Basic for expert programmers familiar with other languages; includes extensive coverage of new VB5 features, and comparisons with previous releases. Details the development of ActiveX EXEs and DLLs, as well as object-oriented VB5 programming techniques. Includes complete coverage of profiling, testing and optimizing VB applications. Covers the VB5 class builder, collections, enums, scoping and object models. Presents expert guidance by Microsoft's VB5 wizards specialist on how to create create your own VB5 wizards, both for use in the IDE and as standalone applications. Much of the information in this book has never been documented before, making Core Visual Basic 5 an essential resource for every advanced developer who plans to work with VB5. Expert programmers who want to learn Visual Basic 5, or build on the Visual Basic skills they already have.
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