Object Programming with Visual Basic 4.0

Microsoft Guide to Building Custom Solutions with Visual Basic 4.0 and
Microsoft Office for Windows 95

Microsoft is betting the company on OLE.... Matt and Joel really know their
stuff, and this book will show you how to leverage your knowledge of
Visual Basic and build integrated solutions quickly. -- Kevin Pleas,
Contributing Editor and "OLE Expert" columnist for Visual Basic
Programmer's Journal 

Microsoft Press announces OBJECT PROGRAMMING WITH VISUAL BASIC 4, a guide
to building object-oriented applications with Visual Basic 4 and the
applications in Microsoft Office for Windows 95. Readers will learn how to
use and modify Visual Basic, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and
Microsoft PowerPoint objects in their own custom-built applications. 

Author Matt Curland, a member of the Visual Basic Development Group and
widely recognized as the team's performance expert, says, "This book
includes everything you need to know to fine-tune Visual Basic and Visual
Basic for Applications to achieve optimal coordination and speed for
customized solutions. Joel and I have tried to provide a good look behind
the scenes at optimizing use of VBA with OLE Automation objects,
leveraging information from the Visual Basic development team." 

A quick, early overview/review gets beginners and sometime Visual Basic
programmers up to speed on Visual Basic basics and Visual Basic
programming and debugging-fast. Readers move quickly from those basics to
topics that experienced Visual Basic programmers will want to go to
directly: using Visual Basic as a controller for OLE Automation
applications and using features from the Office applications in their
Visual Basic programs and providing for in-place activation of those
features. 

A section of OBJECT PROGRAMMING WITH VISUAL BASIC 4 devoted to the
interaction of Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic tells readers how to
create Visual Basic for Applications macros in Microsoft Excel that can be
called from both Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic programs. This section
of the book includes significant help in deciding when to control
Microsoft Excel from a Visual Basic program and when to write Visual Basic
for Applications code in Microsoft Excel-the right approach for the task
at hand and groundbreaking performance-tuning tips available nowhere else.
A sample program demonstrates seamless use of a Visual Basic form as a
modeless dialog box in Microsoft Excel. 

Another section of the book shows readers how to control Microsoft Word
from within a Visual Basic for Applications program and how to
programmatically create, modify, and run PowerPoint presentations from
within a Visual Basic for Applications program for ultimate flexibility. 

The companion CD contains: 

* The book's sample code 
* Author Matt Curland's Object Navigator Tool 
* The Microsoft WordBasic Type Library 

Readers can use the Object Navigator to readily view the hierarchical
structure of any object library and to locate elusive functionality across
multiple object libraries with full sub-string search. The Object
Navigator enables readers to graphically build complex code expressions,
complete with parameter values, that can be pasted directly into their
code. 

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Object Programming with Visual Basic 4.0
by Joel Dehlin and Matt Curland
$39.95, 512 pages with one 3.5-inch disk 
ISBN: 1-55615-899-8
Pub. Date: April 9, 1996 

Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
206-882-8080,  800-MSPRESS
 
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