Includes Index.

Contents: Introduction: Part I: A beginner's guide to visual basic: How visual basic works -- Designing your first user interface -- Writing BASIC code -- Part II: Designing a user interface: User interface design 101 -- Forms and buttons -- Making choices with boxes and buttons -- Text boxes for typing and showing words -- Scroll bars and labels -- Pretty pictures and objects from geometry -- Part III: Menus to make your program look less ugly: Creating menus and making them look pretty -- Submenus, growing menus and pop-up menus -- Dialog boxes -- Part IV: The basics of writing code: Event procedures -- Using variables -- Responding to the user -- Math 101: arithmetic, logical, and comparison operators -- Strings and things -- Defining constants and using comments -- Killing bugs -- Part V: Making Decisions ( something you stop doing when you get married): The if-then-else-statements -- Select case and nested control structures -- Part VI: Loops and loops (or "do I have to repeat myself?"): The do while and do-loop while loops -- The do until and do-loop until loops -- For next loops: loops that can count -- Nested loops and quick exits -- Part VII : Writing subprograms (so you don't go crazy all at once): General procedures (subprograms that everyone can share) -- Passing arguments -- Functions, a unique type of subprogram -- File Management -- Part VIII: Database programs and printing: Using files from database programs you'd rather not use -- Making your program print stuff -- Part IX: The part of tens: The ten most useful visual basic add-on programs -- Ten sources for more visual basic Information -- Visual basic topics that didn't fit anywhere else.