Just about everything we could write about Visual Basic is in this book, and that’s a lot of around to cover. From language reference to ADO database handling, from creating Web browsers to dragging and dropping data across applications, from email applications to multimedia players, from creating ActiveX controls and ActiveX documents to setup programs, it’s all here.
Here’s some of what we’ll see how to create in this book:
• ActiveX controls
• ActiveX documents
• ADO, DAO, and RDO database applications
• Multimedia AVI, MPG, WAV, and MID players
• CD players that play CDs from the computer’s CD-ROM drive
• Bitmapped menu items
• Full Web browsers
• Pie charts, line charts, bar charts, and others
• Code clients that call methods in programs like Microsoft Excel
• Code components (OLE automation servers)
• Graphics animation
• Applications that use the Windows Common Dialogs
• Customized toolbars with embedded controls like combo boxes
• Data entry forms
• Database editing applications
• Direct connections to the Windows API
• Direct connections to code written in Visual C++
• Drag/drop operations
• Graphics applications that draw arcs, circles, rectangles, lines, and more
• Email applications
• Error handlers
• Applications that use the printer
• Word processor applications
• File handlers for text and binary data
• FTP applications
• Dialog boxes
• Windows Help files
• MDI applications
• Pop-up menus activated with right mouse clicks
• Application deployment
• HTTP applications
• Image handling: blur, emboss, engrave, flip, sweep, stretch images, and more
• OLE applications
• Applications that use the Windows Registry
• List views and tree views
• Applications that create controls at runtime
• Mouse capture
• OLE drags (dragging data between applications)
• Online user registration
• Picture clip applications
• Setup programs
• Screen capture
• Spreadsheets
• Status bars and toolbars
• Tab strips, progress bars, and others
That’s just some of what’s coming up. Visual Basic is a very large topic, and the topics we’ll cover number in the hundreds. And if you have suggestions for more, please sendthem in.
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