Contains Visual Basic programming.

Taken from the Programmer's Guide content available in the online documentation, but available in printed form only from Microsoft Press, the book provides vital insights into creating applications for stand-alone desktops, networked PCs, the Internet and intranets, and the components market.

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.

With "Microsoft Office 97 Visual Basic Programmer's Guide", readers will learn to create concise, lean, efficient code with the powerful programming language now found throughout Microsoft Office applications--Visual Basic for Applications.

The Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Reference Library is the core documentation for all editions of Visual Basic 5.0 -- Learning Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition -- and the ultimate resource for developers at all levels. It is identical to the authoritative material presented in the Visual Basic 5.0 Help files -- presented in the open-book form that many find indispensable. Language Reference The Language Reference contains A-Z listings for the objects, functions, statements, methods, properties, and events encompassed by the Visual Basic language. Additional appendixes supply reference information to the ANSI character set, Visual Basic data types, operators, and derived math functions. ActiveX""TM"" Controls Reference The ActiveX Controls Reference has two parts: The first provides A-Z entries for the custom controls that ship with Visual Basic. Then, for each control, the relevant properties, events, and methods are described alphabetically. Programmer's Guide Whether you are a beginning Visual Basic user or an experienced developer, this is the comprehensive guide to Visual Basic programming you need. Straight from the Microsoft Visual Basic product team, the PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE covers everything from programming fundamentals and ""Your First Visual Basic Program"" to optimizing and distributing your application -- documentation you can't get anywhere else in print form.i

Provides information on the capabilities of Microsoft Visual BASIC, covering such topics as control flow and error handling, debugging applications, object-oriented programming, and working with the .NET Framework.