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    • ▼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?
          • Reason Not to Convert to Visual Basic 5
          • ▼Converting Your Program to Visual Basic 5
            • ▼Differences
              • Data Access Objects
              • ActiveX controls have replaced OCXs, which replaced VBXs
              • Windows API
              • Help is at hand
              • String types
              • Unicode and the byte data type
              • ODBC API
              • Long filenames
              • Shell changes
              • Registry and INI files
              • Strategy for dealing with differing APIs
              • Microsoft Office has changed
              • Changes between Microsoft Office 3.x and Microsoft Office 95
              • Office conversion issues
            • Summary of Changes from a Previous Version of Visual Basic to Visual Basic 5
            • Moving from 32-Bit Visual Basic 4 to Visual Basic 5
            • Moving from 16-Bit Visual Basic 4 to Visual Basic 5
            • ▶Moving from Visual Basic 3 to Visual Basic 5
            • How to Take Advantage of New Features Without Rewriting Your Whole Project
          • 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
    • ▶PC 97 Hardware Design Guide
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    • ▶Understanding Thin-Client/Server Computing
    • ▶The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design
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