Visual Basic 5: Environment, Programming, and Applications

Visual Basic 5: Environment, Programming, and Applications, 1/e

Alan Eliason, University of Oregon
Ryan Malarkey

Published December, 1997 by Prentice Hall Business Publishing

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Summary

Introduction to Programming, Visual Basic, Programming with Visual Basic/Business, Computer Science/4-year and 2-year colleges and universities, Continuing Education. Eliason/Malarkey introduce students to the VB5 environment and basic programming concepts. The text has a heavy emphasis on applications design and guides students through creating interactive Web pages.

Features

Step-by-step approach focuses on teaching students the practical side of programming with Visual Basic.
Two concluding chapters gives students an introduction to ActiveX.
Demonstrates how VB applications are integrated with other types of software including database, spreadsheet, and word processing software.

Table of Contents

Part I: Environment
1. Running a Visual Basic Program
2. Writing and Running your First VB Program
3. Adding Controls and Event Procedures to Form Modules
4: Learning to Think Visually
5. Introduction to the Controls and Graphic Methods of Visual Basic
Part II: Programming
6. Variables and Constants
7. Math Operators and Formulas
8. The If-then and Select Case Statements
9. Inputting Values and Formatting Output
10. Variables and Procedure Scope
11. Working with Loops
12. Object Types, Variables, and Collections
13. Class Modules
14. Programming User Events
15. Introduction to Debugging
16. Lists and Arrays
17. Multidimensional Arrays, Arrays of User defining Types, and the Grid Control
18. Numeric Functions
19. String Function
20. File Processing Controls and Sequential File Processing.
21. Random Access and Binary File Processing
Part III: Applications
22. Modular Design
23. Creating an Active DLL
24. Accessing and Manipulating Databases with VB
25. Using Data Access Objects
26. Working with Object from the Microsoft Office Suite

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