Guide to Visual Basic 6 by Jonathan Valentin
Introduction: What are you going to learn out of this guide? You are going to learn how to code correctly in Visual Basic. And maybe pickup a thing or two you did not know before. I am assuming that you are able to pick a control from the toolbox and placing it on the form and setting its... Section E: Compiling real Dll's in Visual Basic like C++ By default Visual Basic does not make dll's with exports, they just make active x dll's. ... Converting C++ Api's to Visual Basic Api's VB Integers = C++ Short VB Longs = C++ Integers Section B: Pointers There is a common myth going around...

You Can Write Microsoft Office Program in About 60 Minutes by Tenny Ing
Microsoft Office program is a programming tool called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that comes with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, and Publisher. VBA can make your repeating jobs automatic. It also can customize Excel, Word and other Office procedures for your own needs. ... Hand-On experience is the key to be a good programmer. ... Writing VBA programs is quite straightforward and can be learned in a short period, providing that there are tutorials that are well organized and illustrated with many pictures.

Start Developing Your Own Software by Daniel Punch
Learning how to program software seems like a daunting task fit only for the geeks and nerds who lock themselves away in dark rooms staring at their monitors for days on end as they pour over thick manuals written largely in zeros and ones. Fortunately the reality is that it’s not as complicated... Visual Basic Visual Basic is a very easy language to use. ... My reasons for this are that Java enforces a certain amount of design and forethought as well as correct programming procedures that are somewhat absent from Visual Basic.

Where are We Going: .NET vs Java? by James Arendt
What in the world is going on in the marketplace? Technology is moving so fast that it is sometimes a little difficult to tell what is happening. Let’s take a short trip back to the past. It wasn’t too long ago that applications were designed, developed, and deployed on a single machine. ... The next version of Visual Studio will be called Visual Studio.Net or VS.Net, and the next version of Visual Basic will be titled VB.Net. ... Each one increased power, features, flexibility, and capability, leading up to two major programming languages -- Java and Visual Basic, with each camp feeling...

Microsoft Great Plains Integrations - Tips for Developer by Andrew Karasev
In this short FAQ style article we would like to introduce you - software developer, programmer, database administrator into Microsoft Great Plains Integration tools and options Microsoft Great Plains is main Microsoft Business Solutions product for US mid-market. ... When Microsoft Windows platform won the OS market (the last battle was in 1997 with PowerMac) Great Plains recommended OLE Server approach: Continuum for VB and Delphi and new Microsoft light programming technology - VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which was integrated into Dexterity application - Great Plains Modifier...

What is a Good Program Spec? by Tim Bryce
"Whenever you see a ratio of 1:4 analysts:programmers you will find systems analysis being performed at the wrong time and by the wrong person." - Bryce's Law INTRODUCTION Since the industry is preoccupied with producing software faster (and not necessarily better), let's stop and consider... Regardless if we write a program by hand, or use some sort of interpreter/generator, we still need to provide the programmer with precise specifications in order to perform their work. ... Anything that eliminates the guesswork for the programmer.

User Driven Modelling - Research Approach by Peter Hale
The intention for this research is to enable non-programmers to create software from a user interface that allows them to model a particular problem or scenario. This involves a user entering information visually in the form of a tree diagram. The aim is to develop ways of automatically... Until recently XML has been used to represent information but languages such as Java, C++, and Visual Basic have been used for the actual code. ... This is also explained in chapter one of Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration (Cypher, 1993), this explains how the Pygmalion language attempts to...

Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager – Advanced Techniques by Andrew Karasev
Great Plains Integration Manager scripting and translation - overview for programmer, software developer, database administrator, IT specialist Microsoft Business Solutions main middle market ERP application - Microsoft Great Plains has multiple integration options: MS SQL Scripting (stored... We assume that you are familiar with Microsoft scripting technologies: Visual Basic for Application (VBA). ... In After Integration script place this code: ClearVariables It is good idea to nullify your variables.

Declarative Programming - Strategies for Solving Software Problems by Roy Furman, Ph.D
Many software and hardware producers take pride in the exponential pace of technology change, but for users and consumers of their products and services the rapid technological obsolescence often means increased costs, frustrations, and unfulfilled promises. ... Developers write sequences of operations in a language, such as C++, Java, Visual Basic, etc., that implement an algorithm, or recipe, for performing tasks. ... Unlike imperative programming, the logic relations in declarative programming are execution order independent, free of side effects of evaluation, and semantically clear to...

How To Export A Microsoft Access Report as a PDF by Chris Le Roy
Microsoft Access is one of the most awesome prototyping tools anyone in software development could ever use, however there are also some really serious downsides as well. I know the software purists will be rolling over in their graves with my comments but after 20 plus years of commercial... With this new method to build a PDF file, you can even use Visual Basic for Access to automate the print process and then email the file using MAPI or CDO. ... This seems complex all in all but for a competent VBA programmer, there should not be any problems doing this.