Product Description

 This book deals with Visual Basic, a programming language which is increasingly gaining ground in the face of its competitors. Addison-Wesley Nitty Gritty Visual Basic 6 offers introductions to VB, looking at the fundamentals of this language. For the more advanced programmer, this book enhances skills such as program development techniques, error handling and debugging and database access using ADO.  

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2033452 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From the Back Cover
 Visual Basic 6  Jurgen Bayer Are you looking for a practical manual on Visual Basic 6 written by an experienced programmer and trainer? Well here it is!  This book covers all the key topics that will enable you to be up and running with Visual Basic 6 quickly. Tips and tricks concerning individual aspects of Visual Basic and a reference section for each chapter mean that you can delve even deeper into the world of Visual Basic.  Let's get down to the nitty-gritty!

• VBA functions and VB objects
• Working with controls and forms
• Using Windows API
• OLE Drag&Drop
• Working with files and folders
• Database access with ADO
• Error handling and debugging

  Addison-Wesley Nitty Gritty Programming Series provides the most important facts you will need to know to get up and running in new programming topics quickly and when you have become proficient you can use it as an on-going reference book for all the fundamentals. Divided into 3 sections, this book provides everything you'll need to know to start programming in Visual Basic 6

• Introduction - all the main topics that you'll need to begin working now.
• Practical tips and tricks -
• find out how to put those important concepts into practice and get expert tips on how to improve your programming.
• Reference Section -
• all the necessary instructions and topics in one easy reference section so that you can refer to the book again and again.

 Jürgen Bayer works as a trainer, consultant and software developer for a number of companies in Germany and Switzerland. He specializes in development and training in Visual Basic, ASP and the SQL server.

About the Author
 Jürgen Bayer works as a trainer, consultant and software developer for a number of companies in Germany and Switzerland. He specializes in development and training in Visual Basic, ASP and the SQL server.

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Customer Reviews

Great if you have used other programming languages before
I decided it was time to try some Windows programming and thought that Visual Basic would make a change from the usual Java/Javascript programs I write. I needed a quick introduction to the language that did not patronise me or waste my time. This book seemed to be the one for me.

This covers the basics of the language very rapidly, assuming you have some knowledge of programming this makes learning the language a breeze. It gives enough information to get you started and act as a reference if you need to go back and re-check things. Fast and useful, basically.

Only two problems. I might have liked a bit more detail about the programming environment (the DataEnvironment in particular) and there are some howling errors in a few of the code listings. These can be momentarily confusing, but if you have programming experience it is easy enough to see what the author should have written. These flaws are not bad enough to stop me from highly recommending this book to anyone who does not want to be patronised when learning VB. I hope it is updated for VB.NET.