Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6

Written by: Wayne S. Freeze
Published by: Sybex, 1998
ISBN: 0-7821-2349-X

Overview

Expert Guide to Visual Basic 6 takes you to guruhood fast. Created for experienced Visual Basic users, this book is filled with expert programming advice, undocumented tips and tricks, and includes some of the best VB tools available. Essential reading for programmers, consultants, and developers who want to advance to the next level of VB knowledge, this book will turn you into an expert on these subjects:

Developing Internet client/server solutions
Sending MAPI messages
Using Microsoft Agent
Adding support for VBScript macro programming
Tapping the Win32 API
Optimizing Visual Basic programs
Communicating with other programs
Debugging your applications
Dynamically laying out controls
Handling errors

Here is the Ultimate Visual Basic "secrets" book! Learn the tricks that turn programmers into gurus; journey far beyond documentation. Advanced Win32 and registry sections lets programmers integrate VB 6's newest features with Windows; Internet sections show VB programmers how to build IIS apps, integrate Transaction Server, FTP and Winsock with their existing VB apps, and create Active Server pages. VBscript coverage shows how to use the Windows 98 Scripting Host with existing VB apps. The CD includes custom applications, source code, ready-to-run examples of advanced VB applets and applications, and a dozen third-party controls and applications for the hardcore VB programmer.

Most of the chapters in this book have been translated into German in the book Visual Basic 6 Programmer's Workshop. Also four of the chapters has been included into Visual Basic 6 Complete, which is probably the best buy in Visual Basic books.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why don't the sample programs load properly?

The sample programs were tested with last beta version of Visual Basic. I did this because I wanted the book to be available when Visual Basic 6 shipped. Apparently Microsoft changed the ObjectID associated with at least some of the controls used in Visual Basic between the last beta and the shipping version of Visual Basic. The controls affected by this problem include the three Microsoft Windows Common Controls libraries (includes such controls as TreeView, ListView, StatusBar, ToolBar, etc) and the MSChart control.

To correct this problem, you can download the RCFixer program which you can run against the Visual Basic source code. It will update the VBP, FRM and CTL files associated with the project. You can also download a corrected version of all the applications in the ExpertVB6.zip. Simply unzip the file to get any or all of the applications.

[Download RCFixer.zip] (51k bytes)

[Download ExpertVB6.zip] (714k bytes)

Updates

page 470: First paragraph under Using VBScript Statements. The On Error statement should not be included in the list statements that are not available in VBScript. The On Error statement is supported in VB Script.