A powerful collection of Basic routines to make the intermediate to advanced programmer more productive--faster. Designed to be an erector set for sophisticated applications, the more than 50 reusable programs feature a code-intensive "learn-by-example" approach. The code and descriptions will be particularly useful to programmers who have experience with QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal, or Turbo C.

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.

This three-volume set written by the Visual Basic team covers the most commonly sought information about Visual Basic technology. The Language Reference provides A-Z listings for the objects, functions, statements, methods, properties, and events encompassed by the Visual Basic language. The Controls Reference describes the custom controls that ship with Visual Basic. Finally, the Component Tools Guide contains information about component tools, from add-ins and dynamic link libraries to ActiveX components.

Fully updated, this is the ultimate resource for intermediate and advanced programmers--a tutorial for improving programs with sophisticated, cutting-edge tools and techniques. Many clear examples and hundreds of step-by-step illustrations describe topics that include optimizing program speed, using effective visual design, multimedia control and writing custom dynamic link libraries. 400 illus.

Approaching Visual BASIC as a means to producing workable, maintainable business applications, this course takes students from ground zero ("What is a computer language?") to creating useful database-oriented applications. Students learn by doing, writing the code and adding complexity to the same real-world applications throughout, with emphasis on bottom-line thinking and readable, maintainable codes. The Brief Course consists of the first eight chapters of the Complete Course.

The ultimate resource for advanced programmers, this tutorially-based book uses clear, easy examples and step-by-astep illustrations to teach Visual Basic programmers how to improve their programs using sophisticated, cutting-edge tools and techniques. CD contains sample Custom Controls from commercial vendors, shareware, animated fractals and other video, WAVE files, and bitmap images.