Comprehensive instruction for faster, leaner
development—and more powerful results
Create professional-quality applications, components,
and user interfaces faster and more efficiently than ever
with the powerful object-oriented programming capabilities
in the Visual Basic 6.0 development system. From Windows
common controls to data access, Internet, and Active®
programming, this book covers core development topics for
version 6.0—providing insightful explanations and
expertly rendered examples for rapid acceleration of your
Win32 productivity.
• Expedite development with the object-oriented
capabilities in
Visual Basic 6.0—including events,
polymorphism, and object hierarchies
• Develop great user interfaces that use the full
range of controls in Visual
Basic and take advantage of
OLE
drag and drop, data-driven forms, and advanced Windows
API
techniques
• Build datacentric solutions using
ActiveX Data
Objects (ADO) 2.0 and 2.1, the DataEnvironment designer,
and RDS components for remote activation over the Internet
• Master ActiveX technology to create controls,
learning advanced techniques such as COM callbacks,
multithreaded components and applications, and windowless
ActiveX controls
• Deploy rich, Web-ready components and applications
with Dynamic
HTML (DHTML) and Microsoft Internet
Information Server
An electronic version of this book is available on the
companion CD.
Contents
- The
basics
- First steps with Microsoft Visual Basic 6
- Instruction to forms
- Intrinsic controls
- Variables and procedures
- The Visual Basic for applications and Visual Basic
libraries
- Events, polymorphism, and inheritance
- Databases
- The user
interface
- Advanced forms and dialogs
- Windows common controls : part I
- Windows common controls : part II
- Other ActiveX controls
- Database
programming
- The ADO object model
- ADO at work
- Tables and reports
- ActiveX
programming
- ActiveX components
- ActiveX controls
- ADO components
- Internet
programming
- Dynamic HTML applications
- Internet information server applications
- Windows API functions