This text is designed to be used either as a stand alone text or as a component of a course covering multiple application software packages. It uses practical problems to teach the fundamentals of Windows and Microsoft Visual Basic 5.

Targeted to new and aspiring Visual Basic developers, developers who are familiar with other languages but who are new to Visual Basic, and Windows power users, with this book you can learn at your own pace, find exactly what you're looking for and practice with real-world examples.

Written by leading Visual Basic experts, ""Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5"" explores the possibilities open to intermediate and advanced developers using Visual Basic as their primary client/server development tool. The CD-ROM contains complete source code and valuable utilities.

Modeled on the best-selling classic Core Java, this book is specifically designed to help expert programmers become equally sophisticated VB5 developers as quickly as possible by building on their existing skills and knowledge.

Aimed at first-time users of Windows 95 or those who are responsible for training large numbers of personnel on Microsoft's operating system. This package offers readers a course in Windows 95.

The latest version of Visual Basic incorporates a number of Web-related building components for creating forms-based and graphically interactive Web applications. Clear, concise exercises show readers step-by-step how to use key VB5 Internet-related objects and introduces VB4 veterans to new Web-related commands and properties included in VB5.

A high-end, hardcover programming book for the experienced Visual Basic programmer, this title helps developers extend their VB5 skills. The book focuses focuses on the most significant advances in Visual Basic 5.0--including hot Internet add-ins. The CD-ROM includes over a dozen custom applications compiled with VB5's new "p-code" compiler (no DLLs required).

VB programmers and developers will learn how to increase their productivity. A detailed primer of syntax, techniques, and detailed examples, this book teaches the reader how to optimize the performance of VB-created OLE Automation servers by calling Windows API and other techniques. The CD offers a demonstration suite and a sample VB Add-In called the WIN API Object Browser.

If you confront common coding problems or want to learn by example the tremendous capabilities of Visual Basic, you've come to the right book. This is the newly expanded and updated fifth edition of the classic, for everyone from advanced students and intermediate programmers to corporate developers and consultants. As usual, John Craig and co-author Jeff Webb lead you through the exciting new possibilities of the latest version of Visual Basic, with special emphasis on the hot topics of Internet development and data access models. Here's the help you need in the shape you want. You get a ton of code samples covering an inviting assortment of topics, clear and direct answers to a host of common programming problems, and adventures into the most exciting possibilities of the newest version of Visual Basic. If you use Visual Basic, you'll want the newest edition of this essential cookbook.