Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Developers Workshop: With CDROM [Paperback]

John Craig (Author), Jeff Webb (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1997

This hot-selling Visual Basic cookbook has been updated for Microsoft Visual Basic version 5.0. Like the software itself, the book has made a broad shift to an object-oriented development model and includes new sample projects to demonstrate the latest developments such as Internet applications and ActiveX controls. The CD-ROM contains a wealth of samples, reusable code, an Internet application, and sample ActiveX controls.

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Amazon.com Review

If you're a VB programmer who's ever wondered, "How do I do that?," you can probably find the answer in Visual Basic 5.0 Developer's Workshop. John Clark Craig and Jeff Webb highlight features new to Visual Basic version 5 and offer up dozens of useful tricks--accessing the Windows Registry to store user preferences, using resource files to separate literals from code and improve graphics performance, exploiting the Windows API to do work that's beyond the capacity of VB itself, even building 16-bit controls that mimic the functions of their 32-bit counterparts. There's something here for every VB programmer who has ever wanted to push the envelope.

About the Author

Jeff Webb is one of the original Visual Basic team members. He was intensely involved with Excel VBA and conceived the first Office Developer's Kit. Jeff also wrote the first book on Excel VBA, Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications, which has remained in print for an amazing 12 years. Now, he returns to his favorite subject with a completely new, comprehensive guide: Programming Excel with VBA and VB .NET.

Product Details

• Paperback: 725 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 4th ed. edition (June 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572314362
• ISBN-13: 978-1572314368
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,574,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good for Developers!, February 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Developers Workshop: With CDROM (Paperback)

I have been a certified MCSD regarding Visual Basic, this book helped me lot in passing the exam, at the same time, I am still using this book for the good examples given in it. Again Microsoft wouldn't publish a book that they think wouldn't be useful.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book to establish VB knowledge, January 26, 2001

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This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Developers Workshop: With CDROM (Paperback)

When I started to move to a VB 5 project, I asked three people for book recommendation. This is the only one they all memtioned.

I got this book to work on the project and igave me very good help to develop my programming skills. It has enough topics (perhaps not allof the important topics) for people doesn't have much experience with Vb and want to have some example and smaple codes as reference. When you have more experience, this may not be the book as good as before, but still very nice to keep it in hand for those topics you want to refresh or never touched before.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nice cover, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Developers Workshop: With CDROM (Paperback)

This book was very disappointing and frustrating to say the least. It started off ok, but several code examples I tried didn't work, producing various errors. I copied the code EXACTLY and had 2 people verify it, but just returned errors. For beginning or refreshing your VB skills, I'd recommend Halvorson's Step-By-Step VB5 or Sybex's "Visual Basic 6 Complete", which is an excellent book for learning and reference....probably the best buy for the money. It can easily be used with VB5 (which is what I'm using) as well, since the code is still the same.