Programming Business Applications With Microsoft Visual Basic

by Burrows, William E.; Langford, Joseph D.

• ISBN13: 9780070121430
• ISBN10: 0070121435
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

Now professionals can program their own business applications in Visual Basic 5.0 using this invaluable guide. Updated to include the new features built into Visual Basic for release 5.0, the new edition of this popular on-the-job tool covers programming tools, data representation and manipulation, program complexity reduction tips, loop structures, arrays, object classes, and much more.

Table of Contents

Preface
Programs, Business Applications, and Visual Basic	p. 1
Visual Basic Projects: Project Structure and VB's Programming Tools	p. 17
Representing Data: Constants and Variables	p. 77
Performing Calculations and Manipulating Data: Expressions	p. 145
Specifying Alternate Courses of Action: Selection Statements	p. 211
Reducing Program Complexity: General Sub Procedures and Programmer-Defined Functions	p. 267
Repeating Processing Tasks: Loop Structures	p. 331
Accessing Business Data: Processing Databases	p. 379
Handling Lists of Data: Arrays	p. 443
Representing Entities with Data and Behavior: Programmer-Defined Types and Object Classes	p. 495
Debugging	p. 555
The Menu Control	p. 570
The Image and Picture Box Controls	p. 579
Using Microsoft Access to Create a Database	p. 586
File Processing	p. 590
The Common Dialog Control and Error Handling	p. 609
The Tabbed Dialog Control	p. 623
Additional Projects	p. 632
Answers to Selected Exercises	p. 641
Index	p. 663
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