Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic [Paperback]

Vincent Chen (Author), John Montgomery (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1996

"As you go through these pages you'll find, over and over again, that Vince and John have uncovered astounding new ways to tackle real-world problems. You'll also find that they don't hesitate to tell you when VB is all screwed up and what you can do to work around the problems." -From the Foreword by Woody Leonhard Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic is the definitive reference to how all the functions, statements, methods, properties, and events in VB really work. Visual Basic experts Vincent Chen and John Montgomery show you which commands to use, which to avoid, and which ones don't work quite the way the documentation says they do. You'll learn about common and not-so-common problems and "features" and how to work around them. Plus you'll get Vince and John's accelerated course in Visual Basic: everything from the basics to writing Add-Ins, creating databases, using OLE, communicating with Windows itself, and optimizing performance and memory. Organized for easy reference, Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic is essential reading for anyone who's serious about programming in VB.Hacker's Guide to Visual Basic also includes a bonus disk with: * a skeleton to use in creating your own Visual Basic Add-Ins * a complete example of how to write an OLE client and server with VB * Styles -- a complete (and practical! ) sample application showing how to use OLE automation 0201870428B04062001

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About the Author

Vincent Chen coauthors the PC Computing "Toolkit" column and is coauthor of The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows , Second Edition. By day he is a controls engineer at Real-Time Innovations, Inc.John Montgomery is Features Editor at Byte magazine and the author of The Underground Guide to UNIX(R) (Addison-Wesley, 1995), and the proud owner of a brown house somewhere in California. John Montgomery is the author of The Underground Guide to UNIX(R) and Troubleshooting Your Multimedia PC. He is CIO of Imagine, Inc. 0201870428AB04062001

Product Details

• Paperback: 681 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C); Pap/Dskt edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201870428
• ISBN-13: 978-0201870428
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,894,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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