Core Visual Basic 5

Core Visual Basic 5, 1/e

Gary Cornell, Storrs, Connecticut
David Jezak, Redmond, Washington

Published September, 1997 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Summary

This book is designed to help advanced programmers become Visual Basic 5 developers quickly, by building on their existing skills and knowledge.

Quickly reviews fundamentals, but focuses on more advanced features and techniques.
Includes intensive coverage of new Visual Basic 5 features, and compares this version with previous releases.
Details the development of ActiveX, EXEs, and DLLs, as well as object-oriented VB5 programming techniques.
Includes complete coverage of builder, collections, enums, scoping, and object models.
The CD-ROM contains sample code, sample VB5 wizards and add-ins, sample ActiveX applications, and extensive Visual Basic shareware and utilities.
With a Microsoft developer and VB insider as a co-author, this book contains more developed, serious code samples and example programs than any other book on the market.

Table of Contents

Figures.
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Visual Basic 5's Environment.
3. Building the User Interface.
4. Programming Basics.
5. More on Visual Basic's Programming Language.
6. Advanced User Interface Issues.
7. Visual Basic Objects (and an Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming).
8. Advanced Object-Oriented Programming.
9. Testing and Debugging.
10. Optimization and Profiling.
11. Data Structures: VB Does Pointers!
12. Under the Hood: API Calls and the Registry.
13. ActiveX Controls.
14. Object Factories-ActiveX Servers: ActiveX DLLs, and ActiveX EXEs.
15. Writing VB Add-Ins.
16. Wizards.
17. Templates.
18. Visual Basic and the Internet.
19. The Visual Component Manager.
20. Deployment.
Appendix: Overview of the Tools Directory on the VB CD.
Index.