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
  • 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
    • Follow the Wizard to the Web!
    • Your Users Need an ISP
    • Using the Browser
    • Looking Through the Other Tools
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Part VII:Appendixes
  • Appendix A.Operator Precedence
  • Appendix B.Answers
  • Appendix C.Using the CD-ROM

Workshop

The quiz questions and exercises are provided for your further understanding. See Appendix B for the answers.

Quiz

1. Which has the broader scope: an intranet or the Internet?
2. Which online connection—an Internet, an intranet, or both—can the VB Application Wizard support?
3. True or false: The computer on which you develop your Visual Basic application with Internet support must have Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.
4. True or false: The computer on which your application executes must have Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.
5. What is an ISP used for?
6. True or false: The computer on which you develop your Visual Basic application with Internet support must have an ISP.
7. What makes a Java-enabled Web page different from one that has no Java code?
8. Why are extra support tools needed when an application already uses the Web Browser tool from the Toolbox window?
9. True or false: The VB Application Wizard generates a Web browser that you can use to log on to the Internet's Web pages. When you finish viewing the Web pages, you can click a button to log off the browser but remain inside the generated application's code.
10. What are three ways to display a Web page that you previously displayed from the Web browser in the same session?

Exercises

1. Use File | Print to print all the Web browser form's code. You'll see that the wizard generated a lot of code and that some of the code is fairly tricky. By studying the code, you'll see that these Internet controls can be difficult to program and that the wizard takes much of that difficult task off your shoulders.

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