Mastering Visual Basic 6 [Paperback]

Evangelos Petroutsos (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782122728 | ISBN-13: 978-0782122725 | Publication Date: August 15, 1998 | Edition: 2nd

The best way to learn the newest version of Visual Basic

Mastering Visual Basic 6 is the ideal guide to Visual Basic. Inside, you'll master the environment, the features, and the techniques that are key to professional Windows programming. Clear, in-depth instructions from a Visual Basic expert provide essential knowledge through scores of practical examples. Detailed coverage includes:
* building custom stand-alone applications
* working with forms
* creating and deploying ActiveX controls
* mastering Visual Basic drawing and graphics methods
* programming databases
* using recursive programming
* optimizing your code
* enhancing applications with multimedia
* extending Visual Basic with the Windows API, OLE, and VBA
* building Web-based applications with Visual Basic

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From the Back Cover

The best way to learn the newest version of Visual Basic

Mastering Visual Basic 6 is the ideal guide to Visual Basic. Inside, you’ll master the environment, the features, and the techniques that are key to professional Windows programming. Clear, in-depth instructions from a Visual Basic expert provide essential knowledge through scores of practical examples. Detailed coverage includes:

• building custom stand-alone applications
• working with forms
• creating and deploying ActiveX controls
• mastering Visual Basic drawing and graphics methods
• programming databases
• using recursive programming
• optimizing your code
• enhancing applications with multimedia
• extending Visual Basic with the Windows API, OLE, and VBA
• building Web-based applications with Visual Basic

About the Author

Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer, consultant, and educator, as well as the author of many programming books, including the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 5 and Visual Basic 5 Developer’s Handbook, both from Sybex.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1312 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 2nd edition (August 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782122728
• ISBN-13: 978-0782122725
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.7 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,368,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Will Make a Good Door Stop, December 24, 1999

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Lee J. Ford "Golf Nut" (Park City, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Visual Basic 6 (Paperback)

I am relatively new to VB programming. I purchased this book because of the great reviews. What a mistake. The author glosses over topics, which I feel, should be covered in more depth, especially for the beginner. I wracked my brain trying to figure out the bad code examples used in this book. I try to purchase books from Amazon with at least 4.5 to 5 stars, and for the most part, I have been very satisfied. The author must have had his friends write the good reviews for this one. Save a tree, don't buy this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mastering VB 6? Yeah right!, November 2, 1999

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Eng Soedjono ([e-mail]) (LA, California) - See all my reviews

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

Finished "Teach Yourself VB 5.0 in 21 days" last year, it was a fantastic book for beginners, and I was ready to step further, then I bought this book for my reference. Boy, this book is very confusing! Go to Chapter 17, for example (page 923), and do the data entry project. I spent hours trying to figure out, why the code just wouldn't work and I always got error messages for undefined variables! Finally, I use the CD to view the codes, and I found out that there were MANY procedures that weren't not on the book at all! NO WONDER! Thanks a lot! The author jumps around different topics, does not even bother to finish the darn project!

If you want to learn VB, go for Teach yourself VB 5.0 in 21 days, and buy something else when you're done, DON'T TOUCH THIS BOOK! I don't understand why others gave 5 stars, did you guys even try the codes? You will change your ratings if you did.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best VB books on the Market.!!!!!!!!!, September 23, 1999

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John W. Hutchison (Dayton, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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

I rate this book highly because I think the book is easy to use and the examples are great. I am a mainframe programmer and I find his way of explaining things to be very good. I was recently certified in VB 5.0. And this book helped a lot. The author is very consistent in quality in every chapter. I have read this book twice. I recommend it to everyone. After you read this book then you might look for others, but I would start here. I am glad he did not spend a lot of time on ADO and database information - you can find that in other books. I think that the material he DID cover was appropriate for a book such as this.