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Essential Visual Basic 5.0 Fast

Includes ActiveX Control Development

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. John Cowell

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

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  • Contains information about the latest version of Visual Basic - a fast, practical guide to how to use all the new features of VB 5.0 - Very competitively priced and produced in the popular "Essential series" - Designed for professional developers or students who need to learn the maximum in the minimum time and to develop applications fast '

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Why Use Visual Basic 5?

    • John Cowell
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Visual Basic Environment

    • John Cowell
    Pages 7-16

  4. Shrinking and Growing

    • John Cowell
    Pages 17-29

  5. Managing Projects and Files

    • John Cowell
    Pages 30-36

  6. Standard Controls

    • John Cowell
    Pages 37-51

  7. Buying a New PC

    • John Cowell
    Pages 52-61

  8. Displaying Text

    • John Cowell
    Pages 62-75

  9. Declaring and Using Variables

    • John Cowell
    Pages 76-85

  10. Controlling Program Flow

    • John Cowell
    Pages 86-93

  11. Procedures and Functions

    • John Cowell
    Pages 94-97

  12. Debugging

    • John Cowell
    Pages 98-106

  13. Object Oriented Programming

    • John Cowell
    Pages 107-117

  14. ActiveX Controls

    • John Cowell
    Pages 118-140

  15. Creating and Using Menus

    • John Cowell
    Pages 141-147

  16. Using Custom Controls

    • John Cowell
    Pages 148-158

  17. Creating and Using Graphics

    • John Cowell
    Pages 159-171

  18. Mouse and Keyboard Events

    • John Cowell
    Pages 172-178

  19. Databases

    • John Cowell
    Pages 179-199

  20. Menu and Toolbar Reference

    • John Cowell
    Pages 200-230
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About this book

Visual Basic has sold over 4 million copies and is the most widely used development environment for creating Windows 95 applications. Developers enjoyed using the powerful, intuitive facilities in version 4 but wanted more. Version 5 is the latest and b est version which significantly extends the power of previous versions and offers a range of new features, in particular Active X component development. If you are new to Visual Basic or an existing Visual Basic user Essential Visual Basic 5.0 fast is written to give you the critical information that you need to write object oriented applications in Visual Basic 5 fast. New features, in particular how to write Active X components and how to use the Visual Data Manager, are covered in detail, with many examples. Essential Visual Basic 5 is designed for professional developers or students who need to learn the maximum in the minimum time and to develop applications fast.

Authors and Affiliations

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

    John Cowell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essential Visual Basic 5.0 Fast

  • Book Subtitle: Includes ActiveX Control Development

  • Authors: John Cowell

  • Series Title: Essential Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0983-9

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76148-8Published: 08 August 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0983-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1439-975X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 235

  • Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Programming Techniques

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