Visual Basic 6 For Dummies

Wallace Wang, a columnist for Boardwatch, has written more than a dozen computer books, including More Visual Basic For Windows For Dummies and Beginning Programming For Dummies.

• Introduction 1Part I: Creating a Visual Basic 6 Program 7Chapter 1: How Visual Basic Works 9Chapter 2: Using the Visual Basic User Interface 15Chapter 3: Designing Your First User Interface 23Chapter 4: Writing BASIC Code 41Part II: Creating User Interfaces 53Chapter 5: User Interface Design 101 55Chapter 6: Forms and Buttons 81Chapter 7: Boxes and Buttons for Making Choices 103Chapter 8: Text Boxes for Typing and Showing Words 123Chapter 9: Scroll Bars and Labels 135Chapter 10: Pretty Pictures and Objects from Geometry 145Part III: Making Menus 161Chapter 11: Creating and Editing Pull-Down Menus 163Chapter 12: Submenus, Growing Menus, and Pop-Up Menus 181Chapter 13: Dialog Boxes 191Part IV: The Basics of Writing Code 207Chapter 14: Event Procedures 209Chapter 15: Using Variables 223Chapter 16: Responding to the User 247Chapter 17: Math 101: Arithmetic, Logical, and Comparison Operators 259Chapter 18: Strings and Things 275Chapter 19: Defining Constants and Using Comments 287Chapter 20: Killing Bugs 299Part V: Making Decisions (Something You Stop Doing When You Get Married) 309Chapter 21: The If-Then and If-Then-Else Statements 311Chapter 22: The Select Case Statement 321Part VI: Getting Loopy 327Chapter 23: The Do While and Do-Loop While Loops 329Chapter 24: The Do Until and Do-Loop Until Loops 335Chapter 25: For Next Loops That Can Count 341Chapter 26: Nested Loops and Quick Exits 349Part VII: Writing Subprograms (So You Don’t Go Crazy All at Once) 353Chapter 27: General Procedures (Subprograms Tha Everyone Can Share) 355Chapter 28: Passing Arguments 363Chapter 29: Functions, a Unique Type of Subprogram 373Chapter 30: Getting Some Class with Object-Oriented Programming 385Chapter 31: Managing Files 403Part VIII: Database Files and Printing 409Chapter 32: Creating Database Files 411Chapter 33: Using Files from Database Programs You’d Rather Not Use 417Chapter 34: Making Your Program Print Stuff 433Part IX: The Part of Tens 441Chapter 35: The Ten Visual Basic Topics That Didn’t Fit Anywhere Else 443Appendix A: About the CD 451Index 459End-User License Agreement 476