CD-ROM 1

1.0 Your First Visual Basic Program

1.1 Welcome to Visual Basic!

1.2 A Simple Project

1.3 Setting IDE Properties

1.4 Using the Application Wizard

2.0 Adding Controls to Forms

2.1 Visual Basic Controls

2.2 Creating and Manipulating New Controls

2.3 Changing Design Time Control Properties

2.4 Visual Basic Built-in Controls

2.5 Control Design Tips

CD-ROM 2

3.0 Understanding Events

3.1 Introducing Events

3.2 Event Procedures

3.3 The Form Load Event

3.4 The Form Resize Event

3.5 Command Button Click Event

3.6 Text Box Change Event

3.7 The Timer Control’s Timer Event

3.8 GotFocus/LostFocus Events

3.9 Is There More?

4.0 Working with Forms and Controls

4.1 Setting Properties at Run Time

4.2 Setting Form Properties

4.3 Setting Control Properties

4.4 Introduction to ActiveX Controls

4.5 Adding ActiveX Controls to a Project

4.6 Using ActiveX Controls

4.7 Some ActiveX Samples

CD-ROM 3

5.0 Creating and Using Menus

5.1 Menus in Visual Basic

5.2 Using the Menu Editor

5.3 Working with Menus

5.4 Creating Popup Menus

5.5 Manipulating Menus at Run Time

5.6 Reusing Menus

6.0 Compiling and Distributing Applications

6.1 Finishing Touches

6.2 Project Options

6.3 Native Code vs p-code

6.4 Creating Your Executable

6.5 Using the Package and Deployment Wizard

CD-ROM 4

7.0 Working with VBA

7.1 Creating a Simple Procedure

7.2 Variables and Parameters

7.3 Data Types

7.4 Using Constants

7.5 Investigating Built-In Functions

7.6 Branching Structures

7.7 Looping Structures

8.0 Handling Errors

8.1 Handling Syntax Errors

8.2 Handling Run-Time Errors

8.3 The Error Handling Standard

8.4 Taking a Closer Look

8.5 Who Handles Errors?

CD-ROM 5

9.0 Debugging Applications

9.1 Handling Logic Errors

9.2 Watch Expressions

9.3 The Call Stack

9.4 The Debugging Process

10.0 More VBA Issues

10.1 Scope, Lifetime, and Precedence

10.2 Passing by Value and by Reference

10.3 Arrays

10.4 Optional Arguments

CD-ROM 6

11.0 More Form and Control Issues

11.1 Using Multiple Forms

11.2 List Boxes Revisited

11.3 Control Arrays

12.0 Adding Simple Database Support

12.1 Support for Data Access in Visual Basic 6.0

12.2 Using the ADO Data Control

12.3 Binding Controls to Data

12.4 Writing Code for the Data Control

CD-ROM 7

13.0 An Introduction to Objects

13.1 What is an Object?

13.2 The Object Browser

13.3 System Objects

13.4 Introducing Object Variables

13.5 Classifying Objects

13.6 Referring to Objects

13.7 Using the Global Forms Collection

13.8 Working with External Objects

CD-ROM 8

14.0 Managing Data with ADO

14.1 What is ADO?

14.2 Getting Started with ADO

14.3 The ADO Object Hierarchy

14.4 The ADO Connection Object

14.5 Working with Recordset Properties and Methods

14.6 The Command Object

14.7 Updating Recordset Data

14.8 Executing Bulk Updates

CD-ROM 9

15.0 Using UI Data Tools

15.1 What’s Wrong with the ADO Data Control?

15.2 Taking Advantage of the Data Environment

15.3 The Hierarchical FlexGrid Control

15.4 More Advanced Uses for the Data Environment Designer

15.5 Creating Reports in Visual Basic

CD-ROM 10

16.0 Using Form Modules

16.1 What’s a Form?

16.2 Adding Form Methods

16.3 Adding Form Properties

16.4 Implementing Dialogs

16.5 Creating Multiple Instances of a Form

16.6 Life Cycle of a Form

CD-ROM 11

17.0 Creating Your Own Objects

17.1 Introduction to Class Modules

17.2 Starting and Stopping

17.3 Properties Aren’t Always So Simple

17.4 A Simple, Useful Class

17.5 TextFile: Working with Text Files

17.6 Using the Class Builder

18.0 Working with Collections

18.1 Collection Overview

18.2 Using the Collection Object

CD-ROM 12

19.0 Working with the Windows API

19.1 What is the Windows API?

19.2 API Declarations

19.3 Using the API Viewer/WIN32API.TXT

19.4 A Few Simple Examples

19.5 Declaring User-Defined Data Types

19.6 Working with Strings

19.7 Talking to Controls (Using SendMessage)

19.8 Resources

20.0 Optimizing Visual Basic Programs

20.1 Getting Started with Optimization

20.2 Testing Hypotheses

20.3 Where Do You Look?

20.4 Optimizing Code Speed

20.5 Optimizing Display Speed

20.6 Optimizing Apparent Speed

20.7 Optimizing Size in Memory

CD-ROM 19  (107 min)

30.0 ADO and Unbound Forms

30.1 Forms and ADO

30.2 Displaying Data on the Form

30.3 Changing Data on the Form

30.4 Finding Data on the Form

30.5 Using a Default Recordset

30.6 Maintaining State Information

31.0 Working with Data-Aware Classes

31.1 Getting Started

31.2 Creating a Data Source

31.3 Creating a Simple Data Consumer

31.4 Creating Your Own Data Control

CD-ROM 20  (50 min)

32.0 Running Queries and Stored Procedures

32.1 Executing Commands

32.2 Working with the Command Object

32.3 Examining the Execute Method

32.4 Running a Stored Procedure without Parameters

32.5 Calling Stored Procedures with Simple Parameters

32.6 Calling Stored Procedures with Complex Parameters

32.7 Deciding on a Technique

32.8 Working with Jet Queries

CD-ROM 21  (72 min)

33.0 Creating DHTML Applications

33.1 Developing DHTML Applications

33.2 Programming HTML Elements

33.3 Understanding DHTML Events

CD-ROM 22  (77 min)

34.0 Visual Basic and the Internet

34.1 What Is This Internet Thing, Anyway?

34.2 ActiveX Controls and the Internet

34.3 Using ActiveX Documents

34.4 Using the Internet Transfer Control

35.0 Programming the WebBrowser Control

35.1 Building Your Own Web Browser

35.2 Working With the WebBrowser Control

35.3 WebBrowser Control Events

35.4 Adding Menu Support