Product Description

Visual Basic 6 Complete is a one–of–a–kind computer book–valuable both for its broad content and its low price. This book contains the essentials you need to know about programming with Visual Basic and VBA, for use in building Windows applications, scripting, and extending and integrating Office applications.

With Visual Basic 6 Complete, you′ll learn all about building Visual Basic applications – from working with forms and controls to using the Windows API and debugging Web applications –– and you′ll quickly take advantage of all that Visual Basic has to offer. Get up to speed with Visual Basic, then move on to scripting objects, VBA, and building internet applications and interactive Web sites.

As you become more proficient with Visual Basic, you′ll find the Visual Basic 6 Language Reference to be an invaluable daily tool. This comprehensive reference quickly puts every built–in function and statement at your fingertips.

Visual Basic 6 Complete introduces you to the work of some of the finest Sybex authors, so you′ll know where to go to learn even more about what′s possible with Visual Basic.

Inside:

Introduction to Visual Basic
∗ Mastering the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
∗ Working with forms and controls
∗ Understanding object–oriented programming
∗ Building sample VB applications
Practical Visual Basic
∗ Debugging Visual Basic applications
∗ Extending VB with the Windows API
∗ Accessing the Windows Registry
∗ Building screen savers, and displaying an icon in the system tray with VB
Visual Basic Scripting and the Internet
∗ Adding scripting support to your application
∗ Scripting objects
∗ Building Web–based applications with VB
Visual Basic for Applications
∗ An Introduction to VBA
∗ The Word Object model
∗ The Access Object model revisited
∗ Professional development with VBA
Visual Basic References
∗ Complete Visual Basic 6 Language Reference
∗ Visual Basic 6 Function Reference

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236354 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1040 pages

From the Back Cover
Visual Basic 6 Complete is a one–of–a–kind computer book–valuable both for its broad content and its low price. This book contains the essentials you need to know about programming with Visual Basic and VBA, for use in building Windows applications, scripting, and extending and integrating Office applications.

With Visual Basic 6 Complete, you′ll learn all about building Visual Basic applications – from working with forms and controls to using the Windows API and debugging Web applications –– and you′ll quickly take advantage of all that Visual Basic has to offer. Get up to speed with Visual Basic, then move on to scripting objects, VBA, and building internet applications and interactive Web sites.

As you become more proficient with Visual Basic, you′ll find the Visual Basic 6 Language Reference to be an invaluable daily tool. This comprehensive reference quickly puts every built–in function and statement at your fingertips.

Visual Basic 6 Complete introduces you to the work of some of the finest Sybex authors, so you′ll know where to go to learn even more about what′s possible with Visual Basic.

Inside:

Introduction to Visual Basic

• Mastering the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Working with forms and controls
• Understanding object–oriented programming
• Building sample VB applications

• Debugging Visual Basic applications
• Extending VB with the Windows API
• Accessing the Windows Registry
• Building screen savers, and displaying an icon in the system tray with VB

• Adding scripting support to your application
• Scripting objects
• Building Web–based applications with VB

• An Introduction to VBA
• The Word Object model
• The Access Object model revisited
• Professional development with VBA

• Complete Visual Basic 6 Language Reference
• Visual Basic 6 Function Reference

About the Author
Sybex, Inc.: Sybex editors and authors have created Visual Basic 6 Complete by pulling together the best information from the following well–respected lineup of books: Mastering Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic 6: In Record Time, Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic 6 Developer′s Handbook, MCSD: Visual Basic 6 Desktop Apps Study Guide, MCSD: Visual Basic 6 Distributed Apps Study Guide, Mastering Visual Basic 6 with Oracle.

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly good
I was recommended this book for a university course on VB and I was expecting a good tutorial book with good useful step by step instructions on how to do things. The book is nothing like that. The tutorial sections are no better than any other book on VB, but where this book lacks in teaching it more than makes up for in it's reference section.

The book is basically four books in one with a reference section at the back, for referencing the other four books. The four books are, Introduction To Visual Basic, Practical Visual Basic, Introduction To Visual Basic Scripting & The Internet and Introduction To Visual Basic For Applications. So with the detailed 228 page reference section indexing the other 737 pages (the four books) you have a comprehensive VB dictionary at your disposal. The reference section provides either direct access to the necessary information or to a section in one of the books, talking about what you want to know.

This book isn't a one stop VB book by all means and no single VB book is, but if you find yourself stuck because you can't remember how to format a date properly or you have forgotten how to do an error handler then this book is a great tool to have.

Not a book I would recommend!
When I bought this book I really should have found out a bit more about it but I didn't and bought a bad book! The book is very vague examples are not explained in enough detail, I was finding myself going back to see if I had missed something, which ain't that easy if you've ever seen the size of the book. It is also terribely laid out, one moment your doing a simple circles program the next your doing screensavers! I already had a reasonable understanding of VB6 and thought this book would simply advance that knowledge, but this assumption was certainly untrue!

The book did have some good examples although not all the code was perfect and not very clear from the rest of the text. This book could be usful if you just want some tips and pointers and maybe some ideas but beginner's wanting all the info need to look else where.

I got about 100 pages into the book and got extremely bored!

Useful reference and sampler
The book covers all the basics and is worth it for the reference section alone. It is not a teach yourself book but a very handy 'I've forgotten how to do....' reference. I pull it off the shelf at regular intervals when programming.