Mastering Visual Basic 6 / Edition 1

by Evangelos Petroutsos

Overview

The best way to learn the newest version of Visual Basic

Mastering Visual Basic 6 is the ideal guide to Visual Basic. Inside, you'll master the environment, the features, and the techniques that are key to professional Windows programming. Clear, in-depth instructions from a Visual Basic expert provide essential knowledge through scores of practical examples. Detailed coverage includes:

• building custom stand-alone applications

• working with forms

• creating and deploying ActiveX controls

• mastering Visual Basic drawing and graphics methods

• programming databases

• using recursive programming

• optimizing your code

• enhancing applications with multimedia

• extending Visual Basic with the Windows API, OLE, and VBA

• building Web-based applications with Visual Basic

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780782122725
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/01/1998
Series:	Mastering Series
Edition description:	2ND BK&CDR
Pages:	1312
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer, consultant, and educator, as well as the author of many programming books, including the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 5 and Visual Basic 5 Developer’s Handbook, both from Sybex.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Visual Programming: The Fundamentals of Visual Basic.

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Basic.

Chapter 2: Visual Basic Projects.

Chapter 3: Visual Basic: The Language.

Chapter 4: Working with Forms.

Chapter 5: Basic ActiveX Controls.

Part II: Advanced Visual Basic.

Chapter 6: Drawing with Visual Basic.

Chapter 7: Manipulating Color and Pixels with Visual Basic.

Chapter 8: Advanced ActiveX Controls.

Chapter 9: More Advanced ActiveX Controls.

Part III: Special Topics.

Chapter 10: The Multiple Document Interface.

Chapter 11: Recursive Programming.

Chapter 12: Optimizing VB Applications.

Part IV: Extending Visual Basic.

Chapter 13: The Windows API.

Chapter 14: OLE Automation and VBA.

Chapter 15: Building ActiveX Components.

Chapter 16: Building ActiveX Controls.

Part V: Database Programming with Visual Basic.

Chapter 17: Database Programming with Visual Basic.

Chapter 18: The Active Data Objects.

Part VI: Visual Basic and the Web.

Chapter 19: Introduction to the Web.

Chapter 20: Scripting Objects.

Chapter 21: Visual Basic and the Web.

Chapter 22: Active Server Pages.

Index.