Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Quick Reference [Spiral-bound]

Namir Clement Shammas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 21, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0764503715 | ISBN-13: 978-0764503719 | Edition: Spiral

A quick reference guide which breaks the programming language into its components and demonstrates each aspect in a clear way. Covers controls, classes, data types, dialog boxes, errors, functions, subroutines, strings, forms, arrays and loops, with easy access points. Also covers Visual Basic integration with other visual programming tools.

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Amazon.com Review

Though it eases interface creation and automates certain data-access operations, Visual Basic is hardly a piece of cake. It's a programming language with its share of obscure keywords, obfuscated syntax, and general confusion. Visual Basic 6 adds more features, making it even harder to fathom.

In Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Quick Reference, Namir Shammas provides what would be called an executive summary of VB6--if executives wrote code. He's culled all the important features of the language into a handy, spiral-bound book that's just right for reference. It's a fine place to turn when you want to know how to structure an If-Then-Else statement or what properties the Print dialog box supports. He even goes into a little bit of detail on how to run the VB6 IDE. This book would be a lot better, though, if it had more information on ActiveX Control creation. That capability is a big selling point for VB6, and its documentation here is pretty feeble. For general-purpose programming, though, this reference hits the mark.

Can you learn VB6 with this book? Kind of, though that's not really what it's for. You'll find Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Quick Reference most useful as a refresher when you've been away from VB for a while, or as a source for quick answers to basic questions. --David Wall

About the Author

Namir Clement Shammas is a full-time author who specializes in object-oriented programming and Windows programming books. He has written and coauthored more than 60 programming books, including Object-Oriented Programming For Dummies®, C++ For Dummies® Quick Reference, and Visual Basic® 5 For Dummies® Quick Reference (all by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.). Namir holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 240 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; Spiral edition (August 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764503715
• ISBN-13: 978-0764503719
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,056,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars mad book, March 8, 2000

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This review is from: Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Quick Reference (Spiral-bound)

this is the bestest-estest book in the whole world. it's so concise. yay!