Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up

This book helps you build bulletproof programs for Windows and the Internet! Visual Basic 6 has a lot to offer, from its new file handling objects and advanced Internet programming capabilities to its new database features. You can learn to build your own commercial-quality application - not just toy apps - using this comprehensive, hands-on tutorial from expert author Gary Cornell, winner of the prestigious Readers' Choice Award from "Visual Basic Programmer's" journal.This best-selling guide for the beginning and intermediate programmer has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover the newest version of the world's number 1 visual programming tool. Using modular, step-by-step instructions, you will: progress from elementary programming skills to marketable expertise; learn object-oriented programming; create VB Forms for use in Internet Explorer; discover Visual Basic's newest database features; create sophisticated event-driven programs; build you own special-purpose Internet Browser; use the Visual Basic environment to develop programs; discover how to distribute your programs; and unleash the power of graphics programming, OLE, and ActiveX.