Teach Yourself® Visual Basic® 6 [Paperback]

Patricia Hartman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764575163 | ISBN-13: 978-0764575167 | Publication Date: April 24, 2000 | Edition: 1

With modular spreads and a user-friendly design, Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 is easy to use. It gives you tasks to master and a wealth of tools that help you teach yourself VB6 quickly. Procedures are presented visually, step by step, so that you can integrate theory and practice as you go. A Personal Workbook section at the end of each chapter allows you to practice and reinforce what you've just taught yourself.

This Teach Yourself edition presents how to
* Master the VB Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
* Debug and access your database.
* Design forms, menus, and controls.
* Use graphics and multimedia elements.
* Harness OLE, ActiveX components, and other advanced features.
When you're both the teacher and the student, Visual Basic can't get more basic!

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From the Publisher

WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK!

Easy-to-learn tutorial for the Visual Basic 6 language and development environment

Covers all the new features of Visual Basic 6

Teaches how to construct databases from design through application implementation

New topics include using Windows API, using OLE Automation to control Office applications, understanding SQL, and how to distribute applications as ActiveX documents

Explains how Visual Basic relates to Microsoft Office VBA and Outlook VBScript

Exercise and Programming tips show innovative ways that readers can quickly use Visual Basic 6

From the Back Cover

Teach Yourself Visual Basic(r) 6 When you need on-the-spot answers - Teach Yourself! Learn fast with short, clear steps Find the answers you need easily Explore the Web for related topics
* Master the VB Integrated Development Environment
* Get up to speed fast on debugging and database access
* Design easy-to-use forms, menus, and controls
* Incorporate graphics and multimedia elements
* Harness OLE, ActiveX components, and other advanced features

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Product Details

• Paperback: 582 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764575163
• ISBN-13: 978-0764575167
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,010,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE FOR BEGINNERS!, June 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself® Visual Basic® 6 (Paperback)

I am a script programmer for a software company that writes voice processing software for the financial industry.

I just purchased this book today and must say that I am very impressed with it. I showed it to one of our web developers who is C++ and he was equally impressed. The format is easy to follow and the writer certainly knows the industry. I was impressed with the direct approach since I am a "Learn By Doing" individual. I am confident that after following the lesson plans I will be in a much better position to target a better programming position.

Thanks

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Good and the Bad, August 19, 2001

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J. Lockie "Teacher Jay" (San Miguel de Allende Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself® Visual Basic® 6 (Paperback)

This book is not for beginners. The computer terminology seems to advanced for beginners, but the beginner must decide that. The beginner should read pages 5-8 before buying this book as their introduction of VB.

The screen shots are helpful, but sometimes they do not match the text descriptions step-by-step. However, I like this book for its breadth of coverage from: Deployment, Internet Applications, OLE, Images, Multimedia, the good old get/put file operations, and more than 1000 screen shots.

As another reviewer has said, the coverage is not 100% complete, therefore I would not recommend it for beginners, but to get an overview and use for particular programming techniques in BASIC, I would still recommend the book. Also buy Harold Davis' VB6 Book for a better step-by-step approach.

I have 4 VB6 books and the Hartman book I use as much as any. The MDI ( Multiple documents with the same parent form ) coverage was confusing to me and wasted pages on an example to show that MDI forms can't directly hold buttons and other data input controls.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Written, December 5, 2001

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Page Clark (Colorado Springs, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself® Visual Basic® 6 (Paperback)

I have read dozens of books on programming languages and tools and this is the worst that I have ever used. The book is very hard to follow, the examples are incomplete and require significant additional research to completed. I would not recommend this book to a beginner, they will become very frustrated.