Sams' Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5 in 24 Hours

by Perry, Greg M.

• ISBN13: 9780672310645
• ISBN10: 0672310643
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

The purpose of this book is to give novices the knowledge to use Visual Basic 5 and the latest tool from Microsoft to create, test and run VB programs. Some basic knowledge of how to use a Web browser and a bare minimum of BASIC programming is needed to comprehend how this fits into the big picture of creating usable components that can be used in Web pages. "The Publisher's Edition of Visual Basic for Control Creation" will be included on the CD.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xix
Part I Introducing Visual Basic	3	(72)
Hour 1 Visual Basic at Work	3	(16)
2 Analyzing Visual Basic Programs	19	(18)
3 Controls and Properties	37	(18)
4 Examining Labels, Buttons, and Text Boxes	55	(20)
Part II Coding the Details	75	(68)
Hour 5 Putting Code into Visual Basic	75	(20)
6 Improving Code: Message and Input Boxes	95	(16)
7 Making Decisions	111	(16)
8 Visual Basic Looping	127	(16)
Part III Putting Code to Work	143	(62)
Hour 9 Combining Code and Controls	143	(16)
10 List Boxes and Data Lists	159	(16)
11 Additional Controls	175	(14)
12 Dialog Box Basics	189	(16)
Part IV Programming with Data	205	(72)
Hour 13 Modular Programming	205	(16)
14 Built-in Functions Save Time	221	(16)
15 Visual Basic Database Basics	237	(18)
16 Printing with Visual Basic	255	(22)
Part V Sprucing Up Programs	277	(66)
Hour 17 Menus in VB Applications	277	(18)
18 The Graphic Image Controls	295	(14)
19 Toolbars and More Graphics	309	(16)
20 Writing Correct Applications	325	(18)
Part VI Advancing Visual Basic Applications	343	(56)
Hour 21 Visual Basic and ActiveX	343	(14)
22 Object Basics	357	(16)
23 Distributing Your Applications	373	(12)
24 Online Visual Basic	385	(14)
Part VII Appendixes	399	(34)
A Operator Precedence	399	(2)
B ASCII Table	401	(12)
C Answers	413	(18)
D This Book's CD-ROM	431	(2)
Index	433