Books or references to commonly used VB6 syntax

[rayt]

I have been searching try to locate books or on-line references that have commonly used VB6 syntax, functions, methods, and statements. Help features in MS VB6 are confusing me more than helping me as a new comer in VB programming.

Any tips will be appreciated.

rayt

 

[redhaired]

Am using VB (6) from McKeown/Piercy, 2nd Edition, right now. New to VB myself. Book not too bad. Has good exercises to practice with.

 

[rvBasic]

If you are looking for VB's syntax twists and turns, then there is only ONE reference published by MS itself:

MS Visual Basic Language reference (

http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1572318643&vm=c)

3 Volumes, the first one containing the syntax of all common VB statements, common controls and their properties.

It can also be consulted online at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library

In the left pane of this window (make sure to show the table of contents), then select Visual Tools and Languages, Visual Basic 6.0, Product Documentation, Reference _________________________________
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. [attributed to Yogi Berra]

 

[chiph]

Rayt -

As far as I know, no one has published a book like "1001 Commonly Used VB Functions". Trouble is, half of them would be dopey functions like "Equality - this function compares two Variants to see if they're equal". (-:

I have a copy of "Practical Algorithms for Programmers" (by Binstock & Rex). It's all C, but the algorithms in there are terrific. The date & time routines alone were worth the price of the book (besides being educational, too).

Chip H.