If you are developing software either as a professional programmer, a student, or simply for fun then it is very likely that you will be working in a Windows environment. If you are, and you are looking to build your own Windows applications, you will find Visual Basic provides an easy and effective means of doing so. This book is written specifically to help users get up and running fast on Visual Basic and focusses on how to develop useful programs quickly and effectively. If you are an undergraduate wanting a simple way to program applications, a professional programmer who needs a broad introduction to Visual Basic 3, or even an amateur programmer interested in building Windows applications, then this book will tell you all you need to know.

Inhalt
1 Why Use Visual Basic?.- 2 How Projects are Organised.- 3 The Toolbar and Menu.- 4 General Procedures and Dlls.- 5 Controls.- 6 The Insurance Quote Form.- 7 Dialog Boxes.- 8 Operators and Variables.- 9 Controlling Program Flow.- 10 Looping Constructs.- 11 Using Data Structures.- 12 Menus.- 13 MDI Applications.- 14 Grid Control.- 15 Creating Graphics.- 16 Displaying and Printing.- 17 Mouse and Keyboard Events.- 18 Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).- 19 Using Files.- 20 Databases.- 21 Examples.