Visual Basic Language Developer's Handbook

This is the book you need if your programming involves the Visual Basic language—regardless of whether you work with Visual Basic or a specific VBA host. Inside, two acclaimed Visual Basic experts explain how the underlying language works and how you can apply this understanding to get the most out of any Visual Basic development environment.

Coverage includes:

• Manipulating text, numbers, and dates
  
• Using automation to control other applications
  
• Creating objects using VBA class modules
  
• Taking advantage of advanced class module features
  
• Using standard search and sort algorithms from within VBA
  
• Creating standard dynamic data structures, including linked lists, binary trees, stacks, and queues
  
• Working with Windows system information, including memory status, screen info, mouse, keyboard, and power status
  
• Working with Window's registry data
  
• Retrieving and setting Windows networking information
  
• Working with the Windows file system, iterating through folders, creating and deleting files
  
• Adding sound and movies to VBA apps using Windows multimedia extensions
  
• Tapping the system capabilities provided by the Windows Scripting Runtime library
  
• Writing add-ins for the Visual Basic environment

Featured on the CD
The enclosed CD contains Microsoft®'s VBA SDK 6.1, which you can use to add VBA to your own applications. You also get all the sample code from the book in Excel 2000, Access 2000, VB 6, and text file formats. Also included are evaluation versions of several Micrografx products, demo ActiveX controls from DBI Technologies, WinZip 7, and Access utilities from Trigeminal Software.

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