Beginning Visual Basic 6

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If you have no Visual Basic experience but have a desire to learn about the language, you'll find Peter Wright's Beginning Visual Basic 6 useful. Furthermore, you'll find it useful for more than a week--the author covers advanced problems as well as language fundamentals. He begins with some introductory information about the development environment's interface and moves on to key aspects of the language, such as graphical controls, variables, arrays, loops, and other control structures. The book then explores different kinds of resources, one at a time, before ending with a series of case studies.

Throughout, Wright's style is clear and informed. He often inserts a program's source code into his commentary and then proceeds to examine it in depth. This Talmudic approach proves quite enlightening. His examples aren't overly academic, either. For example, you'll find a database-aware program to manage a library's collection in the text. Indeed, database programming--the bread and butter of professional Visual Basic programmers--is covered very well.

Coverage of ActiveX control creation, one of Visual Basic 6's most important features, isn't as lavish as that of other topics, but real-life Visual Basic development still focuses on stand-alone applications, after all. --David Wall

Book Description
Visual Basic 6 is the powerful new version of Visual Basic, which you will master in no time with this book. By using lots of hands on examples and hundreds of screenshots, this book will act as a roadmap for you to learn Viusal Basic programming. It will take you on a comprehensive and fun tour of everything you want to know about programming in VB - from your first programs through to ActiveX controls, graphics, and the important new ADO database tools. At the end of the book you will even be ready to look at some professional programs and case studies. All this will add up to a lot of fun as you build a solid foundation for your own future career as a professional VB programmer.

About the Author
Peter Wright has been working with Visual Basic and Windows since their inception back in the mists of time. Currently Peter works as the Managing Director and leading light of Psynet Interactive, a multimedia software house specializing in the development of leading edge systems for using tools such as Delphi, C++ and, of course, Visual Basic. Currently he is engaged in the development of a strategy game for Windows 95 and various leading consoles, as well as the developement of the third version of Psynet's best selling Internet front-end, Hamster. Peter is also a regular speaker at Visual Basic development conferences around the world, and contributes to the UK computer press on a regular basis.

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