The book (over 1,300 pages + CD-ROM) comprises twenty chapters that cover everything a VB developer should know about VB6, from the basics to the intricacies of object-oriented and ActiveX programming, forms and controls, ADO and the many new designers in the IDE, down all the way to client-side and server-side Internet programming, including WebClasses, ASP and RDS components. The book also contains tuturials on SQL, HTML and Dynamic HTML, and ASP programming, plus an appendix on the most useful API functions. On the companion CD you'll find about 2 megs of well commented source code, with a collection of about 100 classes and a library with over 150 reusable, optimized routines.
This book has been translated to Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese (simplified, China), Chinese (traditional, Taiwan) and local English-language version in India. Only in Italy it has sold over 60,000 copies!. It has been adopted in many US schools and universities and as of this writing (november 2005), this book continue to sell more than many .NET titles.
Read the Table of contents, Chapter 6, "Classes and Objects", and Appendix A, "Windows API Functions."
Download the errata file and a Word .doc file that explains all the difference between VB6 and previous language versions, with a reference to where in the book the feature is discussed.
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