Visual Basic 5 How-To: The Definitive Visual Basic 5 Programming Problem-Solver [With Includes Source Codes]

by Eric Brierley, Anthony Prince, Paul Sanna

This text seeks to demonstrate how to take advantage of new interface options and the 32 bit Windows APIs and shows how to build Automation Servers and ActiveX ctonrols to create component objects and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571691006
• ISBN13: 9781571691002
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Waite Group Press
• Length: 690 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the best books for learning VB 5, still has some value

Several years ago, I was teaching a college course in Visual Basic, a VB course for a local company and VB in community education classes. At times, there was a need for quick projects and this was one of the primary sources that I consulted. There were also times when students would come to me and ask questions about specific problems they were having in their work. A few times I was able to get some good ideas or at least hints as to how their problems could be solved from this book. The book contains a series of 68 different complete projects using VB 5. The range of the projects is considerable, the general categories are: *) Extending control features *) View controls *) Class fundamentals *) Object fundamentals *) ActiveX controls *) Internet integration *) Application performance *) Using the WIN32 API *) Windows socket programming *) Forms *) Databases *) Logo compliant applications *) Extending VS and managing development The area that I found most useful was "Using the WIN32 API." I am a firm believer in teaching about API's and I used the ideas in that section to develop exercises where the students were required to call several of the API's. This is a very good book for the learning of the now largely deceased VB 5. However, many of the ideas and principles still live in VB.NET, so it can still be of value.

It is a magic book!

This books just provide you with everything you want to know about VB5.0. It is so useful!