Publisher's Synopsis
Peter Aitken uses a conversational style to teach Visual Basic 5 from the ground up, taking the reader through the basics through the basics, and presents a number of useful Visual Basic and Windows programming techniques including text processing, graphics, file access and management, serial communications, and multimedia. Topics such as object oriented basics, Dynamic Data Exchange, Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), creating ActiveX Components for the Web, and accessing the Windows API are discussed.