In this edition of Microsoft Visual Basic Developer's Workshop, we've added a lot of new material covering the Internet, database programming, and Microsoft ActiveX development. We've also improved much of the material from the previous edition by incorporating suggestions from readers. As with the previous edition, you get two authors for the price of one—myself and Jeff Webb. Jeff is the author of several other fine books on topics related to Visual Basic. With two of us working on the book, we've been able to keep pace with the ever-changing world of Visual Basic development. Microsoft Visual Basic has become such a diverse and wide-ranging product that a team effort is much more effective in providing proper coverage and perspective. We've learned a lot in our research, and we hope you'll find many useful tidbits of Visual Basic programming information in these pages as a result!
Right up front, you'll find a concise description of the new features in Visual Basic 6. This will help you sift through all the hype to see how Visual Basic can help you become more efficient in the development of your projects. There have been many major changes to Visual Basic in this version, so be sure to at least skim Chapter 1, "What's New in Visual Basic 6?" to become familiar with the new capabilities.
This book refers throughout to Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT, but also applies to Microsoft Windows 98. As a rule, any Visual Basic program written for Windows 95 will run on Windows 98 as well.