Essential Visual Basic 4.0 Fast How to Develop Applications in Visual Basic

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Why Use Visual Basic?....Pages 1-19 How Projects are Organised....Pages 20-24 The Toolbar and Menu....Pages 25-33 General Procedures and DLLS....Pages 34-39 Controls....Pages 40-55 The Insurance Quote Form....Pages 56-59 Dialog Boxes....Pages 60-67 Operators and Variables....Pages 68-75 Controlling Program Flow....Pages 76-80 Looping Constructs....Pages 81-86 Using Data Structures....Pages 87-91 Menus....Pages 92-96 MDI Applications....Pages 97-99 Grid Control....Pages 100-106 Creating Graphics....Pages 107-121 Displaying and Printing....Pages 122-129 Mouse and Keyboard Events....Pages 130-135 Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)....Pages 136-144 Using Files....Pages 145-151 Databases....Pages 152-165 Examples....Pages 166-181 Back Matter....Pages 183-186