Download or read book VISUAL BASIC 6.0 written by D.S. Rajendra Prasad and published by Sapna Book House (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors and the publishers of this book are grateful to the readers for their overwhelming support for the earlier editions. In this edition, the readers of the book are introduced to the development of a small package for online test. Each chapter begins with objectives and a brief overview. Numerous coding examples as well as small hands-on projects with thorough guidance appear throughout. Chapter-1: Walks the reader through preliminaries of Visual Basic. Various elements of VB such as standard tool bar, form design window, form layout window are explained with ample screen shots. Chapter-2: Takes the reader through the data types, naming conventions, operators, built in functions, and control constructs in an organized manner. Chapter-3: Explains standard controls such as frames, check boxes, option buttons, combo boxes, shapes, lines and timer in a systematic way. Chapter-4: Gleans through multiple forms, menus, MDI forms and control arrays in a methodical fashion. Chapter-5: Covers standard code modules, image, picture box and custom controls with illustrative screen snapshots. Chapter-6: Explores various drawing tools provided by VB. The potentials of Graphic methods have been clearly explained. Chapter-7: Elucidates file-handling techniques. Chapter-8: Introduces VB database handling techniques which includes the powerful Jet database Engine. Chapter-9: Expedites visual basic Wizards, Active X components, Data environment and data reports. Chapter-10: Deals with some interesting programs of engineering interest. Chapter -11: Takes the reader through a development session. This chapter is intended to motivate the students to develop inkling for GUI based software development. On online tester is developed in a step-by-step manner with a good number of screen captures.