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      • ▶Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT
      • ▼Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5
        • Foreword
        • ▶Preface
        • ▶Chapter 1: On Error GoTo Hell
        • ▶Chapter 2: Patterns of Cooperation in Bytes and Blood
        • ▶Chapter 3: Empowering Your Users' Reports with Visual Basic 5
        • ▶Chapter 4: Transferring Information Over the Internet
        • ▶Chapter 5: Changing Your Approach to Visual Basic Coding
        • ▼Chapter 6: Migration Issues in Visual Basic 5
          • ▼Introduction
            • ▼Why Convert Your Program to Visual Basic 5?
              • ▼Language Features
                • ActiveX Controls technology (new in Visual Basic 5)
                • Early binding (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • Remote Data Object (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • Automation server creation (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • Remote Automation servers (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • Common programming capability across all Visual Basic host environments (new in Visual Basic 5)
                • Wizards (new in Visual Basic 5)
                • Callbacks (the Addressof feature) (new in Visual Basic 5)
                • Typed optional parameters (new in Visual Basic 5)
                • User-definable events (new in Visual Basic 5)
                • Data Access Objects 3 (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • Long strings (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • Objects and collections (new in Visual Basic 4)
                • New language keywords
                • Conditional compilation
              • ▶Improvements to the IDE
              • ▶Other Reasons to Move to Visual Basic 5
            • Reason Not to Convert to Visual Basic 5
            • ▶Converting Your Program to Visual Basic 5
            • The Sample Programs
            • ▶Differing Strategies for Conversion to Visual Basic 5
            • Moving from Visual C++ to Visual Basic
            • Conclusion
        • ▶Chapter 7: Staying in Control
        • ▶Chapter 8: Minutiae
        • ▶Chapter 9: How Does the Year 2000 Problem Affect Visual Basic?
        • ▶Chapter 10: Well, at Least It Compiled OK!
        • ▶Chapter 11: Multimedia and the User Interface in Business Applications
        • ▶Chapter 12: So You Want to Add Another User!
        • ▶Chapter 13: Database Access Options
        • ▶Chapter 14: Programming on Purpose
        • ▶Chapter 15: Didn't I Write That Function Last Week?
        • ▶Chapter 16: How to Juggle 30 Balls Blindfolded
        • ▶APPENDIX A Coding Conventions
        • APPENDIX B Changes in the DAO Structure
        • APPENDIX C Windows 3.11 API Calls
        • APPENDIX D Microsoft Product Date Limits and Formats
        • ▶APPENDIX E Is There Madness in Methods?
        • The Mandelbrot Set (International), Ltd.
      • ▶Hardcore Visual Basic
      • ▶Inside OLE
      • ▶Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmer's Guide
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      • ▶Understanding Thin-Client/Server Computing
      • ▶The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design
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