Learn the behind-the-scenes tricks and techniques that will take your Visual Basic skills to the next level of programming excellence. Davis provides all the secrets readers need to create sophisticated, robust, full-featured, commercial quality Visual Basic applications.

Gary Entsminger provides an inside view on developing sophisticated Windows applications, using advanced techniques for exploiting the programming system and language. This revised edition covers important new features introduced with Version 3.0 of Visual Basic. Two disks include source code for all examples in formats for Version 1, 2, and 3 of Visual Basic.

Visual Basic 6 Master Reference includes explanations for over 1000 keywords, statements, functions, concepts, objects, and controls, as well as associated events, methods, and properties - everything you need to create fully logo-compliant Windows 98 applications. Find the information you need in record time! This comprehensive reference is organized alphabetically with cross-references throughout. You can look up topics by: Concept - Look up ActiveX Controls and find out what they are and how to use them. Control - Look up Animation and discover its description along with its general and custom properties, methods, and events. Object - Look up App and quickly get all of its 29 properties and what they represent. Property - Look up ActiveControl and explore its syntax and how it is used in a form. Event - Look up AmbientChanged and learn which objects receive AmbientChanged events and how they obtain them. This unique Visual Basic encyclopedia provides code examples throughout, including many full programs that enable you to see specific Visual Basic items in action.

VB developers will find pragmatic guidance and advice on design and programming standards in a practical, easy-to-read format. In addition to delineating standardized techniques, Foxhall also suggests guidelines for application, helping individual developers or teams optimize time and resources. CD included.

This book explains how to design a groundwater model using the accompanying customized DesignMod software. DesignMod does not require a digitizer, but instead uses the mouse and rich graphical features of the Windows environment. It enables the user to draw and redraw easily and quickly cross sections and plan views with site base map information, contour, and zonation pattern overlays. Discretization, aggregation, averaging, and approximation guidelines for designing groundwater models with DesignMod are provided as a handy reference. DesignMod also can be used to manipulate and view model database array files. Many exercises with step-by-step program operation documentation are provided for beginning and intermediate modelers.

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