Visual Basic 6.0 How To Program

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45695-4 The Complete, authoritative introduction to Visual Basic 6 Visual Basic 6 is revolutionizing software development with multimedia-intensive, object-oriented, compiled code for conventional and Internet/Intranet-based applications, This new volumes in the Deitels' How to Program Series -- the world's most widely used introductory/intermediate, college-level programming language textbook series -- explains Visual Basic 6's extraordinary capabilities. Dr Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized training organizations specializing in Java, C, C++, Visual Basic and object technologies. They are also the authors of the world's #1 introductory C, C++ and Java textbooks -- C How to Program, C++ How to Program, and Java How to Program. The Deitels and their colleague, Tem R. Nieto, introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Visual Basic 6. ADO * Multimedia: Images, animation, audio, video * Files, databases, networking * Graphics, string, data structures, collections * GUI, control creation Visual Basic 6 How to Program helps you build real-world VB6 applications. It includes: * Hundreds of live-code programs with screen captures that show exact outputs * Extensive exercises (many with answers) accompanying every chapter * Hundreds of tips, recommended practices, and cautions -- all marked with icons Visual Basic How to Program is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning VB6, including a Web site (http: //www prenhall.com.deitel) with the book's source-code examples and other information for faculty, students and professional programmers; and optional interactive CD-ROM (Visual Basic 6 Multimedia Cyber Classroom) containing extensive interactivity features -- such as thousands of hyperlinks, audio walkthorughs of the code examples and solutions to about half the exercises in Visual Basic 6 How to Program -- and e-mail access to the authors at deitel@deitel.com For information on corporate on-site seminars Basic software, documentation and demos http: //www microsoft.com/vbasic or http: //www developer.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Computing Concepts
• Introduction
• What Is a Computer? Computer Organization
• Evolution of Operating Systems
• Personal Computing, Distributed Computing, and Client/Server Computing
• Machine Languages, Assembly Languages, and High-level Languages
• History of Visual Basic
• Other High-level Languages
• Structured Programming
• What Is Visual Basic? General Notes About Visual Basic and This Book
• A Tour of the Book
• 2 Integrated Development Environment
• Introduction
• Integrated Development Environment Overview
• Project Window
• Toolbox
• Form Layout Window
• Properties Window
• Menu Bar and Tool Bar
• A Simple Program: Displaying a Line of Text
• 3 Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
• Introduction
• Visual Programming and Event-Driven Programming
• A Simple Program: Printing a Line of Text on the Form
• Another Simple Program: Adding Integers
• Memory Concepts
• Arithmetic
• Operator Precedence
• Decision Making: Comparison Operators
• 4 Control Structures: Part I
• Introduction
• Algorithms
• Pseudocode
• Introduction to Control Structures
• If/Then Selection Structure
• If/Then/Else Selection Structure
• While Repetition Structure
• Do While Repetition Structure
• Do Until Repetition Structure
• Formulating Algorithms: Case Study 1 (Counter-Controlled Repetition)
• Formulating Algorithms with Top-down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 2 (Sentinel-Controlled Repetition)
• Formulating Algorithms with Top-down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 3 (Nested Control Structures)
• 5 Control Structures: Part II
• Introduction
• Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition
• For Repetition Structure
• Examples Using the For/Next Repetition Structure
• Select Case Multiple-Selection Structure
• Do/Loop While Repetition Structure
• Do/Loop Until Repetition Structure
• Exit Do and Exit For Statements
• Data Type Boolean
• Constant Variables
• Logical Operators
• Structured Programming Summary
• Visual Basic Data Types
• 6 Sub Procedures and Function Procedures
• Introduction
• Form Modules
• Sub Procedures
• Function Procedures
• Call-by-Value vs
• Call-by-Reference
• Exit Sub and Exit Function
• Storage Classes
• Scope Rules
• Random Number Generation
• Example: A Game of Chance
• Recursion and the Factorial Function
• Another Recursion Example: The Fibonacci Series
• Recursion vs
• Iteration
• Optional Arguments
• Named Arguments
• Visual Basic Math Functions
• Code Modules
• 7 Arrays
• Introduction
• Arrays
• Declaring Arrays
• Examples Using Arrays
• Passing Arrays To Procedures
• Sorting Arrays
• Searching Arrays: Linear Search and Binary Search
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Control Arrays
• Dynamic Arrays
• Variable Arguments: Param Array
• Function Array
• 8 Strings, Dates and Times
• Introduction
• Fundamentals of Characters and Strings
• String Data Type
• String Concatenation with & and +
• Comparing Character Strings
• Operator Like
• Manipulating the Individual Characters in a String: Mid$
• Left$, Right$, and InStr
• Searching for Substrings in Strings using InStr and InStrRev
• LTrim$, RTrim$ and Trim$
• String$ and Spaces$
• Replacing Substrings in a String with Function Replace
• Reversing Strings with Function StrReverse
• Converting Strings to Uppercase and Lowercase
• Conversion Functions
• String Formatting
• Date and Time Processing
• Date and Time Formatting
• String Arrays
• 9 Graphics
• Introduction
• Coordinate Systems
• Drawing Methods
• Drawing Properties
• Line Control and Shape Control
• Colors
• Images
• Printer Object
• 10 Basic Graphical User Interface Concepts
• Introduction
• Controls
• TextBox Control
• MaskEdit Control
• ComboBox Control
• ListBox Control
• Scrollbars
• Slider Control
• Menus
• Pop-up Menus
• Function MsgBox
• 11 Advanced Graphical User Interface Concepts
• Introduction
• Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
• Multiple Forms
• Template Forms
• Rich TextBox Control
• UpDown Control
• ImageList Control
• ImageCombo Control
• FlatScrollBar Control (Professional and Enterprise Editions)
• Native Code Compilation (Professional and Enterprise Editions)
• 12 Mouse and Keyboard
• Introduction
• Changing the Shape of the Mouse Pointer
• Mouse Events
• Mouse Buttons
• Shift, Ctrl and Alt Keys
• Drag-and-Drop
• Key Events
• Key Preview Property
• 13 Error Handling and Debugging
• Introduction
• When Error Handling Should Be Used
• A Simple Error-Handling Example: Divide by Zero
• Nested On Error Statements
• Err Object
• Resume Statement
• Error Handlers and the Call Stack
• Rethrowing Errors
• Break Mode, the Immediate Window, and the Debug Object
• First Steps in Bug Prevention
• Debugging Strategies
• Debugger
• Debugger and Error Handlers
• 14 Sequential File Processing
• Introduction
• DirListBox, FileListBox, and DriveListBox Controls
• Data Hierarchy
• File System Objects
• Creating a Sequential Access File
• Reading Data from a Sequential Access File
• Updating Sequential Access Files
• 15 Records and Random-Access Files
• Introduction
• Random-Access Files
• Records as User-Defined Types
• Creating a Random-Access File
• Writing Data Randomly to a Random-Access File
• Reading Data Sequentially from a Random-Access File
• Reading Randomly from a Random-Access File
• Example: A Transaction Processing Program
• 16 Object-Oriented Programming
• Introduction
• Data Abstraction and Information Hiding
• Implementing a Time Abstract Data Type with a Class
• Class Members
• Composition: Objects as Instance Variables of Other Classes
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• Software Engineering with Components
• Type Fields and Select Case Statements
• Polymorphism
• Visual Basic Interfaces
• Polymorphism Examples
• Case Study: IShape, CPoint, Ccircle
• Case Study: A Payroll System Using Polymorphism
• Case Study: Polymorphic Processing of Shapes
• Simulating Implementation Inheritance with Interface Inheritance and Delegation
• Object Browser
• Events and Classes
• 17 ActiveX
• Introduction
• Components, COM and DCOM
• ActiveX Control Types
• ActiveX Control Lifetime and Events
• UserControl Object
• Creating an ActiveX Control That Contains Constituent Controls
• ActiveX Control Example: Clock Control
• ActiveX Control Interface Wizard
• Property Pages and the Property Page Wizard
• ActiveX DLLs
• ActiveX EXEs
• Friend Access
• 18 Database Management
• Introduction
• Database Systems
• Relational Database Model
• Introducing the Microsoft ADO Data Control 6.0 and Microsoft DataGrid Control 6.0
• Relational Database Overview: The Biblio.mdb Database
• Structured Query Language
• Revisiting the A DO Data Control and DataGrid Control
• Hierarchical FlexGrid Control
• DataList and DataCombo Controls
• Using the Data Environment Designer
• Other Programmatic Capabilities of Recordsets
• Transaction Processing
• 19 Networking, the Internet and the World Wide Web
• Introduction
• Visual Basic Internet Controls
• WebBrowser Control
• Internet Transfer Control
• Other Properties, Methods and Events of the Internet Transfer Control
• Winsock Control
• Example: Client/Server Interaction with the Winsock Control
• Winsock Control and UDP-Based Client/Server Computing
• Other Properties, Methods and Events of the Winsock Control
• Visual Basic Script (VBScript): An Overview
• 20 Multimedia: Images, Animation, Audio
• Introduction
• Microsoft Agent Control
• Multimedia MCI Control
• Animation Control
• RealAudio ActiveX Control Library
• Marquee Control Library
• Microsoft ActiveMovie Control
• 21 Data Structures, Collections and Dictionaries
• Introduction
• Type Variant
• Self-Referential Classes
• Dynamic Memory Allocation
• Linked Lists
• Stacks
• Queues
• Trees
• Collection Object
• Dictionary Object
• Appendix A Operator Precedence Chart
• Appendix B ANSI Character Set
• Appendix C Visual Basic Internet and World Wide Web Resources
• Appendix D Number Systems
• Bibliography
• Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Harvey Deitel and Paul Deitel are principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., a global leader in programming training. They are authors of C++ How to Program and Java How to Program, each the best-selling book in its market. The Deitels have taught 500,000 programmers! Now, leverage their extraordinary expertise to learn Visual Basic, with Visual Basic 6: How to Program.

T.R. Nieto , an MIT graduate, is senior lecturer at Deitel & Associates.