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Paul Lomax, author of
VB & VBA in a
Nutshell and
Learning
VBScript, shares his
Top 15 VB Tips and Tricks.
Why program Word? Many VBA programmers and users of Microsoft Word
don't realize the extensive opportunities that exist within the Word Object
Model. We've come up with a
Top 10 List
that might spark some ideas of your own.
Does your software know which version OS you're running?
O'Reilly editor Ron Petrusha reviews how to make this determination and
discusses why it is important in
Where am I Running?
VBScripts.com
provides extensive solutions, articles, and resources for VB and VBA
programmers. Author Paul Lomax maintains the site. Don't miss his active
forum.
O'Reilly author, Steve Roman, has developed an enhanced
Object Model Browser which is designed to provide
various structured views of an object (or type) library.
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Speaking at VBits, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the
developer community to the next version of Visual Basic. New features to
Visual Basic include Code-based and visual inheritance, Free
threading, and Structured exception handling. Ballmer proclaimed that VB would
be at the forefront of the transformation.
Our VB/ASP survey results are
in. Find out how your answers compare to your colleagues when it
comes to how you decide to buy Visual Basic or ASP books.
Eleven Reasons Not
to Migrate to ADO--Thinking of migrating to ADO,
Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects, from DAO? Think again. Helen Feddema,
author of DAO Object
Model: The Definitive Reference, lists eleven reasons why you should
stick with DAO.
Be at the head of your class! O'Reilly, in cooperation with Digital
Education Systems, presents
"Learning VBScript
and ActiveX." This web-based course covers Microsoft's "active
platform," including ActiveX controls, ActiveX documents, VBScript, and Active
Server Pages.
O'Reilly is looking for an associate
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DAO Object Model:
The Definitive Reference
[New!]
will guide you through the Access object
models, allowing you, with the support of Automation, to reference the
application components you want to manipulate. An understanding of the
object models is essential for developers who work with data in Access
tables, or who want to manipulate components of the Access interface from
other Office apps. This book will become *the* reference guide VB
developers reach for when working with data in Access tables, or for
manipulating components of the Access interface from other Office
applications. Sample
chapter 2, the DBEngine Object, is available online now!
The latest Ron's VB Forum
addresses how to create a combo drop-down box in MS Word 2000. Whether
you're new to programming or you're already a pro, this month's column will
get you started designing custom documents in Word VBA.
Heretofore VB programmers have had the Object Browser and the OLE/COM
Object Viewer. Now comes Steve Roman's Object Model
Browser, which depicts the path to a Database object within the DAO
object model.
Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications is a long-awaited universal batch
language--a glue designed to hold together the components of an
application. O'Reilly editor Ron Petrusha introduces the
relationships between VBA, COM, and the Object Model.
Just getting into DCOM? DEVX.com says that Learning DCOM is
"is unquestionably the ultimate DCOM primer for C++ programmers." Read the entire review online now!
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