MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0 PROFESSIONAL STEP BY STEP 2ND ED.

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This information-packed STEP BY STEP course_based on the best-selling first edition_is the easiest, fastest way to teach yourself how to write 32-bit Microsoft© Windows©-based programs with Visual Basic©. Work through every lesson to complete the full course, or do just the lessons you want to learn exactly the skills you need. Either way, you receive professional Visual Basic 6.0 training at your own pace, with real-world examples and practice files to help you master core programming skills. Topics covered include:
• Getting Started with Visual Basic: Opening and running a Visual Basic program, writing your first program, and working with controls, menus, and dialog boxes
• Programming fundamentals: Working with Visual Basic variables and operators and using decision structures, loops, and timers
• Creating the perfect user interface: Working with forms, printers, and error handlers and adding artwork and special effects
• Managing corporate data: Using modules and procedures, exploring text files and processing strings, managing Microsoft Access databases, and connecting to Microsoft Office
• Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition tools and techniques: Word processing with the Rich TextBox control, displaying progress and status information, using the Multimedia MCI control, and using the Windows API
• Web programming fundamentals: Downloading files with the Internet Transfer control, displaying HTML documents with Internet Explorer, designing Dynamic HTML (DHTML) pages, and adding Toolbox elements and ActiveX© Controls to DHTML pages
• Advanced database programming: Managing data with the FlexGrid control and exploring ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
• Upgrade notes: What's new and improved in Visual Basic .NET and how to plan an upgrade
Table of Contents
QuickLook Guide xiii Finding Your Best Starting Point xvii Installing and Using the Practice Files xxiii Conventions and Features in This Book xxxi Visual Basic 6 vs. Visual Basic .NET xxxv Installing Visual Studio 6 Service Packs xxxix PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH VISUAL BASIC 1 LESSON 1 Opening and Running a Visual Basic Program 3 The Visual Basic Programming Environment 4 ( The User Interface Form 10 • The Toolbox 10 • The Properties Window 11 • The Project Window 13 • Getting Help 15 • One Step Further: Exiting Visual Basic 18 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual .Basic .NET? 18 • Lesson 1 Quick Reference 20
LESSON 2 Writing Your First Program 23 Lucky Seven: Your First Visual Basic Program 24 • Programming Steps 24 • Creating the User Interface 25 • Setting the Properties 31 • Writing the Code 37 • Saving the Program 44 • Building an Executable File 46 • One Step Further: Adding to a Program 50 • Using the Package Deployment Wizard 48 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 52 • Lesson 2 Quick Reference 53 LESSON 3 Working with Controls 55 The Basic Use of Controls: The "Hello World" Program 56 • Using File System Objects 60 • Objects for Gathering Input 67 • Using an OLE Object to Launch Applications 74 • Using a Data Object to View a Microsoft Access Database 80 • Modifying a Database 84 • One Step Further: Installing ActiveX Controls 85 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 88 • Lesson 3 Quick Reference 89 LESSON 4 Working with Menus and Dialog Boxes 91 Adding Menus by Using the Menu Editor 92 • Processing Menu Choices 98 • Using Common Dialog Objects 103 • Event Procedures That Manage Common Dialog Boxes 109 • One Step Further: .Assigning Shortcut Keys to Menus 117 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 119 • Lesson 4 Quick Reference 120 PART 2 PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS 121 LESSON 5 Visual Basic Variables and Operators 123 The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Program Statement 124 • Using Variables to Store Information 124 • Using a Variable to Store .Input 130 • Using a Variable for Output 133 • Working with Specific Data Types 135 • Working with Visual Basic Operators 141 • One Step Further: Using Parentheses in a Formula 150 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 150 • Lesson 5 Quick Reference 152 LESSON 6 Using Decision Structures 155 Event-Driven Programming 155 • Using Conditional Expressions 157 • If_Then Decision Structures 159 • Select Case Decision Structures 166 • Finding and Correcting Errors 171 • One Step Further: Using a Stop Statement to Enter Break Mode 179 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 180 • Lesson 6 Quick Reference 181 LESSON 7 Using Loops and Timers 183 Writing For_Next Loops 184 • Writing Do Loops 196 • Using Timer Objects 200 • One Step Further: Using a Timer Object to Set a Time Limit 203 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 207 • Lesson 7 Quick Reference 208 PART 3 CREATING THE PERFECT USER INTERFACE 211 LESSON 8 Working with Forms, Printers, and Error Handlers 213 Adding New Forms to a Program 213 • Form Statements in Pro- gram Code 215 • Working with Multiple Forms: The Italian Program 217 • Sending Program Output to a Printer 223 • Printing an Entire Form by Using the PrintForm Method 228 • Processing Errors by Using Error Handlers 230 • One Step Further: More Techniques for Error Handlers 235 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 237 • Lesson 8 Quick Reference 239
LESSON 9 Adding Artwork and Special Effects 241 Adding Artwork by Using the Line and Shape Controls 242 • Creating Graphical Command Buttons 247 • Adding Drag-and-Drop Support to Your Programs 256 • Adding Animation to Your Programs 264 • One Step Further: Naming Objects in a Program 273 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 280 • Lesson 9 Quick Reference 281 PART 4 MANAGING CORPORATE DATA 283 LESSON 10 Using Modules and Procedures 285 Working with Standard Modules 286 • Working with Public Variables 289 • Creating General-Purpose Procedures 294 • Writing Function Procedures 296 • Writing Sub Procedures 302 • One Step Further: Passing Arguments by Value 309 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 311 • Lesson 10 Quick Reference 312 LESSON 11 Working with Collections and Arrays 315 Working with Object Collections 315 • Working with Arrays of Variables 323 • One Step Further: Using Multidimensional Arrays 335 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 338 • Lesson 11 Quick Reference 339
LESSON 12 Exploring Text Files and String Processing 341 Displaying Text Files by Using a Text Box Object 341 • Creating a New Text File on Disk 347 • Processing Text Strings with Program Code 352 • One Step Further: Using the Xor Operator 363 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 367 • Lesson 12 Quick Reference 368 LESSON 13 Managing Access Databases 371 Working with Databases in Visual Basic 372 • Using a Recordset Object 376 • Adding Records to the Students.mdb Database 380 • Deleting Records from the Students.mdb Database 383 • One Step Further: Making a Backup Copy of a File 386 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 389 • Lesson 13 Quick Reference 390 LESSON 14 Connecting to Microsoft Office 391 Programming Application Objects by Using Automation 391 • Auto.mating Excel from Visual Basic 396 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 404 • Lesson 14 Quick Reference 405 PART 5 PROFESSIONAL EDITION TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES 407 LESSON 15 Word Processing with the Rich Textbox Control 409 Installing Professional Edition ActiveX Controls 410 • Introducing the Rich Textbox Control 413 • Event Procedures that Handle RTF Formatting 418 • Editing Text with the Windows Clipboard 420 • Managing File Operations with the Rich Textbox Control 421 • One Step Further: Displaying the RTF Codes in a Document 425 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET 427 • Lesson 15 Quick Reference 428 LESSON 16 Displaying Progress and Status Information 431 Displaying Task Progress with the Progress Bar Control 432 • The Progress Program 434 • Managing Input Graphically with the Slider Control 437 • Displaying Application Information with the Status Bar Control 441 • One Step Further: Displaying Caps Lock and Num Lock Status 446 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET 447 • Lesson 16 Quick Reference 448 LESSON 17 Integrating Music and Video with the Multimedia MCI Control 449
Playing Audio from .WAV Files 449 • Playing Video from .AVI Files 454 • One Step Further: Playing Music from Audio CDs 458 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET 462 • Lesson 17 Quick Reference 462
LESSON 18 Beyond Visual Basic: Using the Windows API 463 Inside the Windows API 463 • Using the API Viewer Utility 467 • Monitoring Memory Usage on Your Computer 472 • One Step .Further: Terminate Your Programs with Unload 477 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 478 • Lesson 18 Quick Reference 479 PART 6 INTERNET PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS 481 LESSON 19 Downloading Files with the Internet Transfer Control 483 Downloading HTML Documents from the World Wide Web 484 • Transferring Files with FTP 492 • One Step Further: Handling Errors During Internet Transactions 498 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 500 • Lesson 19 Quick Reference 500 LESSON 20 Displaying HTML Documents with Internet Explorer 493 Getting Started with the Internet Explorer Object 494 • Displaying HTML Documents 498 • One Step Further: Responding to Internet Explorer Events 503 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 514 • Lesson 20 Quick Reference 506 LESSON 21 Designing Dynamic HTML Pages for the Web 507 Inside Dynamic HTML 508 • Getting Started with the DHTML Page Designer 510 • One Step Further: Creating HTML Documents in Microsoft Word 524 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 538 • Lesson 21 Quick Reference 528 LESSON 22 Adding Toolbox Elements and ActiveX Controls to DHTML Pages 541
Getting Started with Toolbox Elements 541 • Creating and Custom.izing Elements 547 • Adding ActiveX Controls to a DHTML Page 553 • Creating Event Procedures for DHTML Elements 555 • OneStep Further: Compiling a DHTML Application 562 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 564 • Lesson 22 Quick Reference 564 PART 7 ADVANCED DATABASE PROGRAMMING 567 LESSON 23 Managing Data with the FlexGrid Control 569 Using FlexGrid as a General-Purpose Spreadsheet 570 • Using FlexGrid to Display Database Records 578 • One Step Further: Searching the Biblio.mdb Database 585 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 588 • Lesson 23 Quick Reference 588 LESSON 24 Exploring ActiveX Data Objects 591 Inside ADO 591 • Using the ADO ActiveX Control 593 • Writing ADO Program Code 601 • Building ActiveX Data Objects with the Data Environment Designer 607 • One Step Further: Additional Resources for Visual Basic Programming 611 • Upgrade Notes: What's Different in Visual Basic .NET? 613 • Lesson 24 Quick Reference 614 APPENDIX A Upgrading Visual Basic 6 Programs to Visual Basic .NET 617 APPENDIX B Where to Go for More Information 629 INDEX 635


Auteur : HALVORSON
Editeur : MICROSOFT PRESS
Nombre de pages : 720
Date de publication : 10 2002

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