This reference has two parts. The first provides A-Z entries for the custom controls that ship with Visual Basic. For each control, the relevant properties, events, and methods are described alphabetically. The second part is a tutorial to custom control development.

* Visual Basic is the #1 programming language used today with 80% of the RAD (rapid application development) tools marketshare. * Expert author is including real-world questions based on his highly-successful Windows NT magazine column, VB Solutions. * Contains over 400 answers to VB questions on topics ranging from creating menus to adding graphics to using ActiveX controls. * Includes a valuable VB command card for quick access to VB commands & shortcuts.

This book is an invaluable companion when tackling a wide range of Visual Basic 2005 problems. It meets your need for fast, effective solutions to the difficulties you encounter in your coding projects. The book collates these problems and explains their available solutions. These one-stop solutions have been chosen with professional developers in mind and feature a careful balance of code and text: the code gives you everything you need to solve the problem at hand, while the accompanying text carefully explains how it solves your problem and, more importantly, why it works the way it does.

If you confront common coding problems or want to learn by example the tremendous capabilities of Visual Basic, you've come to the right book. This is the newly expanded and updated fifth edition of the classic, for everyone from advanced students and intermediate programmers to corporate developers and consultants. As usual, John Craig and co-author Jeff Webb lead you through the exciting new possibilities of the latest version of Visual Basic, with special emphasis on the hot topics of Internet development and data access models. Here's the help you need in the shape you want. You get a ton of code samples covering an inviting assortment of topics, clear and direct answers to a host of common programming problems, and adventures into the most exciting possibilities of the newest version of Visual Basic. If you use Visual Basic, you'll want the newest edition of this essential cookbook.

Highly motivated developers will want this book if they are eager to keep up with the most exciting growth area for Visual Basic development. After a technical overview of the Internet-related capabilities of Visual Basic, the book covers the Internet Control Pack and the creation of ActiveX controls and documents.