Object Programming with Visual Basic 4

Microsoft Guide to Building Custom Solutions with Visual Basic 4 and
Microsoft Office for Windows 95

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. This one-of-a-kind guide
shows developers using Visual Basic how to use and modify Visual Basic,
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint objects in their
own custom-built applications, and dramatically shorten development time.


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 Visual Basic for Applications with OLE
Automation objects, leveraging information from the Visual Basic
development team." 

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

OBJECT PROGRAMMING WITH VISUAL BASIC 4 treats the interaction of Microsoft
Excel and Visual Basic, telling readers how to create Visual Basic for
Applications macros in Microsoft Excel that can be called from both
Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic programs. 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. Its ground-breaking
performance-tuning tips are available nowhere else. A sample program
demonstrates seamless use of a Visual Basic form as a modeless dialog box
in Microsoft Excel. 

Chapters also show 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
by Joel Dehlin and Matthew J. Curland
$39.95, 528 pages with one CD-ROM 
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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