Product Description

Spend less time searching for Visual Basic commands and more time learning them with Visual Basic 6 in Plain English. Featuring a quick-reference format, illustrated tutorials, practical examples, and concise, step-by-step instructions, Visual Basic 6 in Plain English is the ideal guide for busy VB programmers at every level. The book covers such important topics as arrays, controls, forms, classes, objects, properties, data types, operators, debugging commands, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #434981 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

From the Back Cover
Visual Basic^® 6 in Plain English Straight Answers — Right Away!

• Getting to Know Visual Basic 6 Quick, illustrated tutorials covering all the basics of arrays, controls, forms, classes, objects, and properties will get you started in Visual Basic right away
• Task Summary Go straight to this section if you know what you want to do and just need short, direct, step-by-step instructions
• Visual Basic in Plain English and Visual Basic A to Z For quick refreshers, you can also quickly look up information by task or keyword in these two special references
• Tables to Reference Data You'll find complete references to data types, operators, standard controls, objects, file systems, strings, and debugging commands in this section

About the Author
About the Author Brian Overland worked as programmer/writer, tester, and manager at Microsoft for 10 years and played a historic role in the development of Visual Basic -- he wrote the first ever sample Visual Basic program. He is the author of C in Plain English, C++?? in Plain English, and Java?(TM) in Plain English.

Customer Reviews

one of my best references
this has honestly got to be one of the best vb references i have ever read. it has almost everything in vb that you could wish to do as well as some examples so that you are not typing and trying. i consider this my vb bible i read it all the time when i need help.

Good Reference
The book makes a very good reference. That's about it. Don't rely on it as a tutorial because its not. There are not many sample problems to work on and most of them are very simple (not real world examples). One needs to have the full version of VB in order to build the ActiveX controls. The book serves as a good introduction, so you have to get a more advanced book (Visual Basic 6 from Scratch) to get some hands on, create useful applications, and really learn. The book had a few coding errors.

Good stuff
This is a great beginners book. It's written in an easy to understand manner. It doesn't use the "I've been doing this type of thing for eons so I assume you have even though your a beginner" techno-geek speek. If your a beginner, get this book.