Visual Basic 6 for Dummies

Introduction 1
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PART I: Creating a Visual Basic 6 Program 7
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<br />Chapter 1: How Visual Basic Works 9
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<br />Chapter 2: Using the Visual Basic User Interface 15
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<br />Chapter 3: Designing Your First User Interface 23
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<br />Chapter 4: Writing Basic Code 41
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PART II: Creating User Interfaces 53
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<br />Chapter 5: User Interface Design 101 55
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<br />Chapter 6: Forms and Buttons 81
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<br />Chapter 7: Boxes and Buttons for Making Choices 103
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<br />Chapter 8: Text Boxes for Typing and Showing Words 123
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<br />Chapter 9: Scroll Bars and Labels 135
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<br />Chapter 10: Pretty Pictures and Objects from Geometry 145
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PART III: Making Menus 161
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<br />Chapter 11: Creating and Editing Pull–Down Menus 163
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<br />Chapter 12: Submenus, Growing Menus, and Pop–Up Menus 181
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<br />Chapter 13: Dialog Boxes 191
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PART IV: The Basics of Writing Code 207
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<br />Chapter 14: Event Procedures 209
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<br />Chapter 15: Using Variables 223
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<br />Chapter 16: Responding to the User 247
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<br />Chapter 17: Math 101: Arithmetic, Logical, and Comparison Operators 259
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<br />Chapter 18: Strings and Things 275
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<br />Chapter 19: Defining Constants and Using Comments 287
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<br />Chapter 20: Killing Bugs 299
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PART V: Making Decisions (Something you Stop Doing When You Get Married) 309
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<br />Chapter 21: The If–Then and If–Then–Else Statements 311
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<br />Chapter 22: The Select Case Statement 321
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PART VI: Getting Loopy 327
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<br />Chapter 23: The Do While and Do–Loop While Loops 329
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<br />Chapter 24: The Do Until and Do–Loop Until Loops 335
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<br />Chapter 25: For Next Loops That Can Count 341
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<br />Chapter 26: Nested Loops and Quick Exits 349
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PART VII: Writing Subprograms (So You Don′t Go Crazy All at Once) 353
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<br />Chapter 27: General Procedures (Subprograms Tha Everyone Can Share) 355
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<br />Chapter 28: Passing Arguments 363
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<br />Chapter 29: Functions, a Unique Type of Subprogram 373
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<br />Chapter 30: Getting Some Class with Object–Oriented Programming 385
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<br />Chapter 31: Managing Files 403
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PART VIII: Database Files and Printing 409
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<br />Chapter 32: Creating Database Files 411
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<br />Chapter 33: Using Files from Database Programs You′d Rather Not Use 417
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<br />Chapter 34: Making Your Program Print Stuff 433
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PART IX: The Part of Tens 441
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<br />Chapter 35: The Ten Visual Basic Topics That Didn′t Fit Anywhere Else 443
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<br />Appendix A: About the CD 451
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<br />Index 459
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<br />IDG Books Worldwide End–User License Agreement 476
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<br />Installation Instructions 478
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