In our presentations on Visual Basic, we've noticed that the majority of questions asked by the audience are of a "How do IDear John, How Do I... ?" nature. Visual Basic programmers have discovered a wealth of powerful, but sometimes not too well documented, tricks and techniques for getting things done. We've added new, up-to-date material to Part II, the "Dear John, How Do IDear John, How Do I... ?" section of this book. Often Visual Basic 6 provides better solutions to these questions than did earlier versions of the language, so the information in Part II is more current than in many other books.
By the way, after much debate it was decided for the sake of simplicity to leave these questions in their "Dear JohnDear John, How Do I... " format, but please note that in many cases "Dear JeffDear John, How Do I... " would have been more accurate. "Dear J & JDear John, How Do I... ," "Dear Jeff and JohnDear John, How Do I... ," and "Hey, you guys!Dear John, How Do I... " were all ruled out, so "Dear JohnDear John, How Do I... " it remains. For the same reason, we use I instead of we in the text, even though there are two authors speaking.