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 book/disk package, which takes a cookbook approach to Visual Basic programming, will appeal to the hundreds of thousands of intermediate and advanced Visual Basic programmers. The accompanying disk contains an excellent collection of more than 50 ready-to-run programs or ""mini applications"", and the text provides the recipes.

Newly revised and expanded to include such topics as ActiveX controls, exposing and accessing ActiveX objects, Remote Automation, and Windows NT 4.0, "Automation Programmer's Reference" is the comprehensive and official reference documentation on Automation.

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