Visual Basic 5 for Dummies Quick Reference Book

Introduction: How to Use This Book

Finding Things in This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
The Cast of Icons

Adding Menus

Adding a menu item
Adding a menu command

Adding Submenus
Aligning Multiple Controls
Copying and Pasting Controls
Customizing Control Properties
Date Functions

The Date() Function
The Day() Function
The Month() Function
The Now() Function
The Weekday() Function
The Year() Function

Deleting Controls
Deleting Menus
Drawing Controls
Menus
Moving Controls
Moving Menus
The Print Statement
Selecting One or More Controls
Time Functions

Hour()
Minute()
Second()
Time()

Using the Immediate Window
Visual Basic Naming Rules
Working with Project Files

Creating a new project
Adding a project
Removing a project
Saving a project
Adding a form and other parts to your programs
Removing a file

Working with the Project Window
Working with the Properties Window

The Bitmap Button Control
The Button Control
Check Box Control

Value
Caption

Combo Box Control
Frame Control
List Box Control
Option Button Control
Radio Button
Scroll Bar Controls
Static Text Control
Text Box Control

Creating Your Own Data Type
Creating Your Own Enumerated Type
Data Types In Visual Basic
Declaring Classes
Using Arithmetic Operators
Using Classes
Using Constants
Using Logical Operators
Using Relational Operators
Using User-Defined Data Types
Using User-Defined Enumerated Types
Using Variables

The Color Dialog Box
The Font Dialog Box
The Help Dialog Box
The Input Dialog Box
The Message Dialog Box
The Open/Save As Dialog Box
The Print Dialog Box

Directory List Box Control
Drive List Box Control
File List Box Control
Image Control
Picture Box Control
Shape Control
Timer Control

The Err Object
The On Error Statement
If-Then Else Statement
The Resume Statement
The Select Case Statement

Exit Function
Exit Sub
Functions
Subroutines

Concatenating (Linking) Strings
Converting between Strings and Other Data Types
InStr()
Left()
Len()
LCase()
LTrim(), RTrim(), and Trim()
Mid()
Right()
RTrim()
Strings and Manipulating Them
Trim()
UCase()

Adding an MDI Child Form
Arranging MDI Child Forms
Closing the Active MDI Child Form
Closing All MDI Child Forms
Managing Multiple Forms
Managing Parent MDI Forms
Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Forms

Accessing the Dimension Limits of Arrays
Accessing Multidimensional Arrays
Accessing One-Dimensional Arrays
Declaring Multidimensional Arrays
Declaring One-Dimensional Arrays
Passing Arrays as Arguments to Functions and Procedures

Do Until Loop
Do While Loop
Do-Loop Until Loop
Do-Loop While Loop
Exit Do
Exit For
For Loop
For Each Loop

Glossary: Techie Talk

Index

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