Discover Visual Basic 5 Book

Thanks to Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language -- and Discover Visual Basic 5 -- creating your own customized software has never been easier. Even if you've never written a line of code, author and Windows application developer James D. Foxall will have you building your own forms, objects, and controls in no time at all.

Discover Visual Basic 5 introduces you to the latest Visual Basic release, showing you step-by-step how to install it and customize it for your needs. Then Foxall explains all the essential Visual Basic programming concepts and techniques, including

• Thinking in terms of objects, collections, events, and projects
• Creating and using forms and basic and advanced controls
• Adding menus to forms and drawing and printing on a form or picturebox
• Creating and calling code procedures
• Using constants, data types, variables, and arrays
• Performing arithmetic and string manipulation
• Incorporating decisions and loops in your code
• Debugging your Visual Basic programs
• Interfacing with Access databases
• Reading and writing files

Discover Visual Basic 5 also covers one of Microsoft's most exciting new technologies -- ActiveX controls -- showing you how to add them to your projects for greater interactivity and functionality.

Plus, Discover Visual Basic 5 comes complete with a companion CD-ROM containing source code for all the examples presented in the book as well as valuable resources such as

• Evaluation copies of ActiveX controls from AddSoft, Apex, Data Dynamics, and VideoSoft
• Demos of Pursuit and Service & Repair
• A sharewareversions of the WinZip 95 compression utility
• A working demo of WISE

Like all the titles in our Discover series, Discover Visual Basic 5 features the 6-Point Advantage?

• Color Tear-Out Card -- Key information and shortcuts that get you up to speed fast
• Discovery Center -- Quick summaries of the chapters' major points collected at the back of the book
• Real-Life Vignettes -- Winning stories on how real people use technology to improve their lives
• Visual Index -- Convenient picture maps direct you to the features you're looking for
• Web Path -- Handy references to feature- or topic-related Web sites
• Bonus Section - Value-added tips and timesaving techniques at the end of each chapter