Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book
  • What This Book Will Do for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Visual Basic in 24 Hours?
  • What You Need
  • Files on the Visual Basic Distribution CD-ROM
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Enough! Time Is Ticking!
  • Part I: Introducing Visual Basic
  • Hour 1. Visual Basic at Work
  • Hour 2.Analyzing Visual Basic Programs
  • Hour 3.Controls and Properties
  • Hour 4.Examining Labels, Buttons, and Text Boxes
  • Part II: Coding the Details
  • Hour 5.Putting Code into Visual Basic
  • Hour 6.Message and Input Boxes
  • Hour 7.Making Decisions
  • Hour 8.Visual Basic Looping
  • Part III:Putting Code to Work
  • Hour 9.Combining Code and Controls
  • Hour 10.List Boxes and Data Lists
  • Hour 11.Additional Controls
  • Hour 12.Dialog Box Basics
    • What the Common Dialog Box Does
    • Adding the Common Dialog Box Control
    • Generating Common Dialog Boxes
    • The Common Dialog Box Methods
    • Adding the File Dialog Boxes
    • The Color Dialog Box
    • The Font Dialog Box
    • The Printer Dialog Box
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Part IV:Programming with Data
  • Hour 13.Modular Programming
  • Hour 14.Built-In Functions Save Time
  • Hour 15.Visual Basic Database Basics
  • Hour 16.Printing with Visual Basic
  • Part V:Sprucing Up Programs
  • Hour 17.Menus and Visual Basic
  • Hour 18.The Graphic Image Controls
  • Hour 19.Toolbars and More Graphics
  • Hour 20.Writing Correct Applications
  • Part VI:Advancing Visual Basic Applications
  • Hour 21.Visual Basic and ActiveX
  • Hour 22.Object Basics
  • Hour 23.Distributing Your Applications
  • Hour 24.Online Visual Basic
  • Part VII:Appendixes
  • Appendix A.Operator Precedence
  • Appendix B.Answers
  • Appendix C.Using the CD-ROM

Q&A

1. How do I know what controls I can add to my Toolbox window?

   This book examines a few more of the controls, so you'll become familiar with more of the extra controls as you progress through the book. In addition, you can click the Components dialog box's Browse button and search your hard disk (or your network) for additional controls in other locations. For example, if you subscribe to The Microsoft Network online service, you will find several ActiveX controls in the Microsoft Network folder. Any ActiveX control, whether or not it comes with Visual Basic, will work as a Toolbox control.

2. How do I know all the properties of the six dialog boxes?

   This lesson does not list all the properties available for all the dialog boxes, but then again, this entire book has yet to list all properties for any control described. Some properties are simply not useful enough to warrant a lot of attention. This book, although extremely complete, is not an encyclopedic reference to Visual Basic, but you do have access to such a reference: the online help and, especially, Books Online. In addition, the online help describes the various named literals available for several of the Common Dialog Box controls. This book gives you the tools you need to begin developing Visual Basic applications as soon as you can, but exhaustive property and named literal lists would become too cumbersome for this text.

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