An introduction to computer security for teenage users explains how to protect one's home computer from viruses and prevent identity theft and covers a variety of key issues, including how to ensure one's privacy, how to configure firewalls for online gaming, and more. Original. (Beginner)

Explores Visual Basic programming fundamentals within the .NET framework, covering strategies, concepts, and code for the development of Web and server-side applications.

Explores Visual Basic programming fundamentals within the .NET framework, covering strategies, concepts, and code for the development of Web and server-side applications.

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Demonstrates key elements of the Win32 operating system and explains how to use Visual Basic to customize and design applications

Collects programming puzzles requiring Visual Basic skills to solve problems and customize the Windows API (view table of contents)

Product Description: Developing COM Components with Visual Basic 6 is a focused tutorial for learning component development. It teaches the reader the programming concepts and the technical steps needed to create ActiveX components. Dan Appleman is the author that Visual Basic programmer's recommend to their friends and colleagues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides coverage on how to program ActiveX components, with a focus on working around bugs, common pitfalls, and documentation limits; and sample source code is provided on the accompanying disk. Original. (Intermediate). (view table of contents)

Covers window management, drawing operations, advanced process control, interprocess communication techniques, and translation

Product Description: Turn your Visual Basic knowledge into Windows programming expertise by tapping into the powerful tools of the Windows application programming interface (API). Master programmer Daniel Appleman can make you a Windows developer in less time than you ever thought possible--even if you've never programmed Windows before...read more

Exploring each of the key features of Visual Basic, a developer's guide covers such topics as OLE, VBA, WIN32 API, and Windows 95, and the accompanying CD-ROM provides all the necessary source code and project files. Original. (Advanced)

An innovative blend of text and graphics demystifies programming, explaining fundamental programming concepts--such as arrays and structures, loops and Booleans--and deciphering complex concepts through the use of color illustrations, concise text, and real-world analogies. Original. (Beginner).

A book-and-disk package not only teaches the fundamentals of the Windows API and the Visual Basic-Windows Interface, but also demonstrates built-in functions and messages, with examples from the book on the accompanying diskette. Original.