search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Teach Yourself Visual Basic
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
preface
viii
01 the visual studio
1
19
1.1 Visual Basic and the Visual Studio
2
2
1.2 Getting started
4
3
1.3 Arranging the windows
7
4
1.4 The Tools and Properties
11
1
1.5 The Help system
12
5
1.6 Online Resources
17
1
1.7 Options
18
2
02 the basics of visual basic
20
26
2.1 A first application
21
3
2.2 Object-oriented programming
24
2
2.3 The Code window
26
2
2.4 Controls and properties
28
3
2.5 Setting colours
31
2
2.6 Formatting text
33
2
2.7 Programming with properties
35
3
2.8 Tidy exits
38
1
2.9 MsgBox
39
3
2.10 InputBox
42
1
2.11 Comments
43
3
03 controls and events
46
17
3.1 Mouse events
47
4
3.2 Values and ScrollBars
51
2
3.3 Text controls
53
3
3.4 Toggle switches
56
2
3.5 Keyboard events
58
1
3.6 The Focus
59
1
3.7 Tablndex
59
4
04 variables and operations
63
26
4.1 Data types
64
1
4.2 Declaring variables
65
1
4.3 Assigning values to variables
66
3
4.4 The scope of variables
69
3
4.5 Constants
72
2
4.6 Arrays
74
3
4.7 Variables and files
77
4
4.8 Number operators
81
2
4.9 Assignment operators
83
1
4.10 Logical (bitwise) operators
83
6
05 program flow
89
21
5.1 Flow of execution
90
1
5.2 For...Next loops
90
6
5.3 Loops and arrays
96
1
5.4 For Each...Next
96
1
5.5 Making comparisons
97
2
5.6 Do... Loops
99
2
5.7 If...Then...
101
3
5.8 Loop and branch game
104
1
5.9 Early Exits
105
1
5.10 Select Case
106
4
06 subroutines and functions
110
19
6.1 Subroutines and functions
111
3
6.2 Passing arguments
114
1
6.3 Using subroutines
115
7
6.4 Using functions
122
5
6.5 Recursion
127
2
07 dealing with errors
129
11
7.1 Errors and error spotting
130
3
7.2 Debugging tools
133
1
7.3 Breakpoints
134
1
7.4 Keeping watch
135
1
7.5 Stepping through
136
1
7.6 Error-trapping
136
4
08 windows components
140
21
8.1 The Windows way
141
1
8.2 Menus
141
3
8.3 Context menus
144
2
8.4 Toolbars
146
6
8.5 Dialog boxes
152
3
8.6 Printing
155
2
8.7 Wordless: simple word processing
157
4
09 text processing
161
22
9.1 Editing
162
2
9.2 String manipulation
164
4
9.3 Find and Replace
168
4
9.4 The Font and Color dialog boxes
172
1
9.5 FontStyle formatting
173
3
9.6 Wordless word processing
176
7
10 graphics and animation
183
17
10.1 Basic concepts
184
2
10.2 The Drawing methods
186
5
10.3 DoodlePad - a drawing program
191
3
10.4 Timers
194
1
10.5 Animation
194
6
11 Multiple forms
200
18
11.1 The second form
201
1
11.2 Code for multiple forms
202
2
11.3 Modules and global variables
204
1
11.4 A two-form project
204
5
11.5 MDI forms
209
4
11.6 An MDI text editor
213
5
12 answers to exercises
218
10
taking it further
228
1
index
229