Programming with Visual Basic 6

This text is designed to be used in an introductory course in programming using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. It presents the material practically, coherently and in depth, making use of extensive step-by-step instructions and model application building. This book should be ideal for class use, and self-paced training in the lab or at home. Coburn uses a Personal Information Manager (PIM) as a central application that students continually add to and modify throughout the text, starting in Chapter 5. Bringing students in synch with the demands of today's web-dependent workplace, a new Chapter 13 teaches students how to create a web browser.

Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL BASIC AND PROBLEM SOLVING. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. Problem Solving and the Programming Process. About Visual Basic. Looking and Visual Basic. Using the Visual Basic Help System. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. At the Computer. Performance Mastery. 2. YOUR FIRST APPLICATION. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. Creating Your First Application. Running the Application. Saving Your Application. Program Design. Modifying Our Application. Printing Your Code. The Multimedia Control. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises. Performance Mastery. 3. THE CODE WINDOW AND MORE CODE. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. Understanding Projects. More About the Code Window. Using the Immediate Window. Variables and Scope. Adding Comments to Your Code. Mathematics. String Handling. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises. Performance Mastery. 4. USING LOOPS AND ARRAYS. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. A Look at the Widgets Graph Program. Creating a Loop. Looping within Procedures. The ZOrder Method. The About Dialog Box. Arrays. Control Arrays. Creating the Widget Graph Program. The MsgBox Function. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises. Performance Mastery. 5. MORE LABELS, BUTTONS, AND TEXT BOXES. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. Our First Look at the PIM. The Tabbed Control. Creating a Notepad. Creating an Alarm Clock. Making an EXE File. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises. Performance Mastery. 6. USING MENUS AND RELATED FEATURES. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. A Quick Look at the PIM. Adding Menus to the PIM. Adding Code to the Menu Items. Enabling and Disabling Menu Items. Putting Menus in Your Design. Adding Fonts to the Application. A Control Array of Menu Items. Adding Check Marks to the Font Menu. Submenus. Pop-Up Menus. Adding Font Buttons. Adding a Status Bar. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises. Performance Mastery. 7. USING DIALOG BOXES AND MULTIPLE FORMS. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. Looking at the PIM. Using MsgBox to Display a Message. The InputBox Function. Adding a Second Form to Our Application. Adding New Forms in Our Designs. Adding Adjustment Dialog Boxes to the Notepad. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises. Performance Mastery. 8. SAVING AND LOADING FILES. Chapter Objectives. Introduction. Looking at the PIM. About Files. Opening a Sequential File. Writing Data into the Sequential File. Loading a Sequential File. Adding Menu Items. Saving Multiple Fields in a File. About Random-Access Files. Writing the Appointments. Using the Common Dialog Control for Files. Debugging Your Programs. Command and Menu Summary. Performance Check. Programming Exercises.