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| Introduction | |
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| - At a Glance | |
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| Welcome to Visual Basic | |
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| Visual Basic's Background | |
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| Why Write Programs? 9 | |
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| Creating Your First Program | |
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| Event-Driven Programming | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Working with Visual Basic | |
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| Understanding the Visual Basic Environment | |
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| Getting Help | |
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| Getting Used to the Screen | |
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| Creating an Application from Scratch | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Managing Controls | |
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| Studying Controls | |
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| Control Focus | |
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| Event Procedures | |
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| Using Bonus Projects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Controls, Properties, and Events | |
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| The Visual Elements | |
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| Adding the Code | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Creating Menus | |
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| Using the Application Wizard for Menus | |
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| Learning About Menus | |
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| Introducing the Menu Editor | |
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| Working with the Menu Editor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Analyzing VB Data | |
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| A Few Preliminaries | |
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| Working Inside the Code Window | |
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| The Data in Visual Basic | |
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| Working with Variables | |
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| Using Variable Storage | |
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| Visual Basic's Operators | |
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| Analyzing the Order of Operators | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Variables and Expressions | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Controlling Programs | |
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| Conditional Operators | |
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| Conditional Data | |
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| Combining Conditional Operators with Logical Operators | |
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| The If Statement Uses Conditional Operators | |
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| Completing the If with Else | |
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| An Early Exit | |
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| Nesting If...Else Statements | |
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| Selecting with Select Case | |
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| Repeat Code with Loops | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Advanced Keyboard and Screen Support | |
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| Introduction to Internal Functions | |
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| Let the User Respond with MsgBox() | |
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| Getting Input with InputBox() | |
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| Handling the Keyboard | |
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| Additional Controls | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| User Input and Conditional Logic.Creating the Initial Form | |
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| The Startup Form's Analysis | |
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| Creating the Check Box Form | |
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| The Check Box Form's Analysis | |
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| Creating the Option Button Form | |
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| The Option Button Form's Analysis | |
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| In Review | |
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| At a Glance | |
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| The Nature Of VB Programs | |
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| Mastering Program Structure | |
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| Calling General Procedures | |
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| Internal Functions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| The Dialog Box Control | |
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| The Need for a Common Dialog Box | |
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| Adding the Common Dialog Box Control | |
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| Working with the Common Dialog Box Control | |
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| Producing the Color Dialog Box | |
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| Handling the Cancel Button | |
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| Producing the Font Dialog Box | |
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| Help with Setting Controls | |
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| Producing File Open Dialog Boxes | |
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| Producing the File Save Dialog Box | |
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| Producing the Print Dialog Box | |
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| The Help Dialog Box | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Adding Power with the Mouse and Controls | |
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| Responding to the Mouse | |
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| List Box Controls | |
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| The Timer Control | |
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| Working with Arrays | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Multiple List Boxes | |
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| Preparing for Multiple Selections | |
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| Adding the Code | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Practice with the Mouse | |
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| Changing the Mouse Icon | |
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| Programming the Mouse | |
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| Entering the Code | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Implementing Automatic Drag-and-Drop | |
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| Implementing Manual Drag-and-Drop | |
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| Working with Forms | |
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| Properties, Events, and Methods | |
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| Form Collections | |
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| Placing Text on Forms | |
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| Creating New Properties for Forms | |
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| Multiple Forms | |
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| Placing Toolbars on Forms | |
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| Adding Coolbars | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Interact with Files | |
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| Working with Files | |
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| Working with Sequential-Access Files | |
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| Working with Random-Access Files | |
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| Using the File Controls | |
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| Summary | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Workshop | |
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| Quiz | |
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| Reading and Writing Files | |
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| Creating the Interface | |
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| Entering the Cod | |