Advanced Visual Basic 6 [Paperback]

Kip Irvine (Author), Kaiyang Liang (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

Advanced Visual Basic 2/e has been updated to reflect changes in the new standard of Visual Basic. The new edition includes extensive coverage of intermediate and advanced custom controls, including the ToolBar, ImageList, CoolBar, StatusBar, ListView, TreeView, MSChart, Winsock, Multimedia, ActiveMovie, and Hierarchical FlexGrid. The book contains complete coverage of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), including ADO Connections, ADO Recordsets, and DataReports. There is a chapter on SQL database queries and updates, as well as on Internet programming, including the Winsock control, dynamic HTML, HTML Help, and the Internet Transfer control. The text also includes two chapters on creating ActiveX DLL components, ActiveX controls, and data-aware ActiveX servers.

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About the Author

Kaiyang Liang, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Information Systems, both at Miami-Dade Community College.

Product Details

• Paperback: 587 pages
• Publisher: Scott Jones; 2 edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576760308
• ISBN-13: 978-1576760307
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,119,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kip Irvine has written five computer programming textbooks, for Intel Assembly Language, C++, Visual Basic, and COBOL. Along with Tony Gaddis, he is co-author of Starting Out with Visual Basic 2008, published by Addison-Wesley. His Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers has been translated into six languages. Kip grew up in Hawaii as a surfer, sailor, and surfboard maker. He studied classical guitar and music composition at University of Hawaii, eventually earning his doctorate in music composition from the University of Miami in 1982. Around that time he began programming computers, and was a professor of Computer Information Systems at Miami-Dade College for 17 years. He also earned a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Miami, and since 2000 has been on the faculty of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Redemption review!, October 28, 2001

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)

Not too long ago I wrote about another VB book, the one we had for our first VB class at Scottsdale Community College, in Arizona (Programming With Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, by Diane Zak): talk about a bad book! Now, for the VBII class we're using this one. I have to agree that the evolution of the topics is not the best there can be (i.e. there is a jump between somewhat unrelated topics), but saying that it's the worst book or that you should not buy, etc. are not statements that do justice to the book, in my opinion.

The one thing I found about the book that I'm very happy with is the step-by-step way in which it presents the topics covered, no assumptions made. Plus the companion CD it comes with contains ALL the samples discussed in the book, which make things easy at the time of figuring out components of a program that are not visible from the code alone, because they are set within the Properties of an Object.

All in all I am taking away one star because of the way in which it's organized, as I mentioned before, but each topic covered is done in a very clear way, which leaves the programmer with no doubts about it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An "ADVANCED VB" book., August 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)

This book will make you work!

Won't spoon feed you the information, more like a graduate level course: concepts are given, but you must apply it. If you are willing to put in some effort it provides a good foundation in advanced topics of VB 6.0.

Note:Recommend installing service pack 3 and using oledb 4.0 rather than 3.5.1. Found 1 database problem where the oledb 3.5.1 connection would crash the program, changing to the oledb 4.0 solved the problem. All the example programs thus far have compiled an run without a problem with SP3 loaded.

Good: Covers advanced topics like ADO,SQL,Toolbars, Active X, API calls,intro to the internet,trees and many other useful subjects. Assumes you know the basics already- NOT for someone just starting out in VB- so it doesn't waste a lot of time and pages reviewing what one should have learned in an introductory course or book. Has chapter review questions, practical problems which help re-inforce the material in the chapter. Complete example problems on the companion CD.

Possibly a problem : A good instructor would be a help. Does use code snippets which some may find inconvenient. Looking at the complete listing on the companion CD compensates for this. At times presentation can be somewhat brief. It really helps to take a concept open a new project, and play with the ideas presented as well as working problems.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall, a good book, November 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)

I used this book in an Advanced VB class I took at Austin Community College. At first, I got down on the book but the more I keyed in the examples and did the homework projects, the more I learned - even if things didn't go 100 per-cent as advertised. I find VB a very complicated and volatile subject. Some of the examples may not work but for varied reasons. One of the problems I kept running into was fixed by downloading Visual Studio SP3 from Microsoft. Others seemed to be inherent in VB - not the book. Keep reading and doing - it's worth it.