Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step-by-Step Tutorial

Author: Michael Halvorson
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
Publication Date: 1999-02-01
Features: This book is one of the Chinese versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio series authorized by Microsoft Press. The book is divided into seven parts and twenty-four lessons. The seven parts are: Introduction to Visual Basic, Programming Basics, Creating Perfect User Interfaces, Managing Common Data, Professional Tools and Techniques, Internet Programming Basics, and Advanced Database Programming. The twenty-four lessons are: Using Controls, Menus, and Dialog Boxes, Visual Basic Variables and Operators, Using Conditional Branching Structures, Using Loops and Timers, Using Forms, Printers, and Error Handlers, Using Module Procedures, Collections and Arrays, Managing Access Databases, Connecting to Microsoft Office, Using the RichTextBox Control for Text Processing, Displaying Progress and Status Information, Using Multimedia MCI Controls, Using Windows API, How to Download Files, Displaying HTML Documents and Designing Dynamic HTML Pages, Using the FlexGrid Control to Manipulate Data and Explore ActiveX Data Objects. The book is written in a textbook format, with each part interconnected yet somewhat independent. At the beginning of each lesson, the key points are listed, and at the end of the lesson, a "Quick Reference" is provided for important techniques of that lesson.