Microsoft® Visual Basic® Professional 6.0 Step by Step

Microsoft® Visual Basic® Professional 6.0 Step by Step

by Michael Halvorson (Author)

Synopsis

This information-packed STEP BY STEP course-based on the best-selling first edition-is the easiest, fastest way to teach yourself how to write 32-bit Microsoft Windows-based programs with Visual Basic. Work through every lesson to complete the full course, or do just the lessons you want to learn exactly the skills you need. Either way, you receive professional Visual Basic 6.0 training at your own pace, with real-world examples and practice files to help you master core programming skills. Topics covered include: * Getting Started with Visual Basic: Opening and running a Visual Basic program, writing your first program, and working with controls, menus, and dialog boxes * Programming fundamentals: Working with Visual Basic variables and operators and using decision structures, loops, and timers * Creating the perfect user interface: Working with forms, printers, and error handlers and adding artwork and special effects * Managing corporate data: Using modules and procedures, exploring text files and processing strings, managing Microsoft Access databases, and connecting to Microsoft Office * Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition tools and techniques: Word processing with the Rich TextBox control, displaying progress and status information, using the Multimedia MCI control, and using the Windows API * Web programming fundamentals: Downloading files with the Internet Transfer control, displaying HTML documents with Internet Explorer, designing Dynamic HTML (DHTML) pages, and adding Toolbox elements and ActiveX Controls to DHTML pages * Advanced database programming: Managing data with the FlexGrid control and exploring ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) * Upgrade notes: What's new and improved in Visual Basic .NET and how to plan an upgrade

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 672
Edition: 1
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Published: 07 Sep 1998

ISBN 10: 1572318090
ISBN 13: 9781572318090

Author Bio

Michael Halvorson has written more than 30 books, including the popular Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step, Microsoft Office XP Inside Out, and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step. A former Visual Basic localization manager at Microsoft, Michael is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University.