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Essential Visual Basic 4.0 Fast

How to Develop Applications in Visual Basic

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. John Cowell

    1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, De Montfort University, UK

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Why Use Visual Basic?

    • John Cowell
    Pages 1-19

  3. How Projects are Organised

    • John Cowell
    Pages 20-24

  4. The Toolbar and Menu

    • John Cowell
    Pages 25-33

  5. General Procedures and DLLS

    • John Cowell
    Pages 34-39

  6. Controls

    • John Cowell
    Pages 40-55

  7. The Insurance Quote Form

    • John Cowell
    Pages 56-59

  8. Dialog Boxes

    • John Cowell
    Pages 60-67

  9. Operators and Variables

    • John Cowell
    Pages 68-75

  10. Controlling Program Flow

    • John Cowell
    Pages 76-80

  11. Looping Constructs

    • John Cowell
    Pages 81-86

  12. Using Data Structures

    • John Cowell
    Pages 87-91

  13. Menus

    • John Cowell
    Pages 92-96

  14. MDI Applications

    • John Cowell
    Pages 97-99

  15. Grid Control

    • John Cowell
    Pages 100-106

  16. Creating Graphics

    • John Cowell
    Pages 107-121

  17. Displaying and Printing

    • John Cowell
    Pages 122-129

  18. Mouse and Keyboard Events

    • John Cowell
    Pages 130-135

  19. Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)

    • John Cowell
    Pages 136-144

  20. Using Files

    • John Cowell
    Pages 145-151
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About this book

If you are developing software either as a professional programmer, a student, or simply for fun then it is very likely that you will be working in a Windows environment. If you are, and you are looking to build your own Windows applications, you will find Visual Basic provides an easy and effective means of doing so. This book is written specifically to help users get up and running fast on Visual Basic and focusses on how to develop useful programs quickly and effectively. If you are an undergraduate wanting a simple way to program applications, a professional programmer who needs a broad introduction to Visual Basic 3, or even an amateur programmer interested in building Windows applications, then this book will tell you all you need to know.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer and Information Sciences, De Montfort University, UK

    John Cowell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essential Visual Basic 4.0 Fast

  • Book Subtitle: How to Develop Applications in Visual Basic

  • Authors: John Cowell

  • Series Title: Essential Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3093-2

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19998-4Published: 03 May 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3093-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1439-975X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 186

  • Number of Illustrations: 169 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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