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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 show more 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 boxesProgramming fundamentals: Working with Visual Basic variables and operators and using decision structures, loops, and timersCreating the perfect user interface: Working with forms, printers, and error handlers and adding artwork and special effectsManaging corporate data: Using modules and procedures, exploring text files and processing strings, managing Microsoft Access databases, and connecting to Microsoft OfficeVisual 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 APIWeb 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 pagesAdvanced 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 show lessTags
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This is a good introductory level book for VB6. Of course, in the world of technology, that means almost nothing now that VB6 has been superseded by Dot Net. I may be alone in preferring VB6 but that has little to do with the merits of this book. As a Microsoft publication the book reminds me too much of their help. It's good up to a point, but it rarely takes you into those little nooks and crannies that you really need to get the serious job done.
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Michael Halvorson is the author of numerous best-selling books for Microsoft Press, including Running Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step. He worked for Microsoft Corporation from 1985 to 1993, where he was employed as a technical editor, acquisitions editor, and localization manager. In 1996, Michael received show more a Merit Award for technical writing from the Society for Technical Communication, and the Thomas M. Power Award for excellence in historical writing. He lives in Seattle. show less
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- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step
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- Technology, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 005.268 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Software development, software, data, security Programming for Specific Environments Personal Computers For specific operating systems
- LCC
- QA76.73 .B3 .H338 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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