Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook

Written by leading VB developers whose enterprise-level VB applications are used by COMPAQ, Exxon, Texas Instruments, and NASA, this book offers high-end coverage of the advanced topics you have to master in order to take your work and your career to the next level.

Master advanced VB techniques and put them to work immediately. Inside, the authors provide scores of practical examples to illustrate effective, elegant solutions to big-time, real-world challenges.

In-depth coverage includes:

• Developing for an enterprise environment
• Building database applications using DataEnvironment and ReportDesigner
• Using Active Data Objects
• Creating three-tiered solutions
• Using VB with SQL Server
• Understanding front-end design
• Using the Microsoft English Language Query Engine Object programming with VB
• Accessing Word, Excel and Outlook 98 objects
• Developing programs for the Internet
• Building ActiveX controls and servers
• Understanding data bound ActiveX controls
• Creating Internet Information Server and DHTML applications
• Using VB with the Windows Registry
• And much more

The CD contains all the code from the book and PDF files containing important API and SQL documentation. You'll also find a number of useful Visual Basic development tools, including Data Widgets 3.0, Applet Designer 1.7, and evaluation copies of Smartcheck for VB 6 and LeadTools 9.

Table of contents

Part I: Database Programming

Chapter 1: What's New with Visual Basic 6 and Databases

Chapter 2: Client/Server Programming

Chapter 3: Using SQL Server

Chapter 4: The ADO Object

Chapter 5: Advanced SQL Examples

Chapter 6: Writing Front Ends

Chapter 7: Using the Microsoft English Query Engine

Chapter 8: Three-Tiered Applications

Part II: Object Programming

Chapter 9: Object Programming with Visual Basic

Chapter 10: Building ActiveX Components

Chapter 11: Building ActiveX Controls

Chapter 12: Building Data-Bound ActiveX Controls

Chapter 13: Extending the IDE with Add-Ins

Part III: Extending Visual Basic

Chapter 14: Visual Basic and the Windows API

Chapter 15: Visual Basic and the Registry

Chapter 16: The Built-In Visual Basic Developer's ActiveX Controls

Chapter 17: Optimizing VB Applications

Part IV: Programming for the Web

Chapter 18: Web Development Basics

Chapter 19: Active Server Pages

Chapter 20: Developing Internet Applications

Part V: Programming Office 97

Chapter 21: An Introduction to VBA

Chapter 22: Using the Visual Basic Editor with Word and Excel

Chapter 23: Excel 97 Objects

Chapter 24: Word 97 Objects

Chapter 25: Outlook 98 Objects

Index to Code Listings

Index