The book deals with objects and object-oriented development with Visual Basic 5. It explains why object-oriented programming is so important today and how its use can simplify the development process as a whole. It leads the reader into the realm of actual development by using real-world examples to demonstrate the sort of problems that programmers come up against everyday.

This book is for Visual Basic programmers who have a grasp of the fundamentals of Visual Basic and want to learn how to do object-oriented development. This book is ideal for aspiring programmers with intermediate ability who wish to tackle ideas that are more complex.

Peter Wright has been working with Visual Basic and Windows since their inception back in the mists of time. Currently Peter works as the managing director and leading light of Psynet Interactive, a multimedia software house specializing in the development of leading edge systems for using tools such as Delphi, C++, of course Visual Basic.

At the moment he is engaged in the development of a strategy game for windows 95 and various leading consoles, as well as the development of the third version of Psynet’s best selling Internet front-end, Hamster.

Peter is also a regular speaker at Visual Basic development conferences around the world, and contributes to the UK computer press on a regular basis.

Chapter 1: Introducing Objects

Chapter 2: Why Program with Objects

Chapter 3: OO Development

Chapter 4: Object Hierarchies

Chapter 5: Objects and ActiveX Components

Chapter 6: Objects and ActiveX Controls

Chapter 7: Advanced ActiveX Controls

Chapter 8: Object Persistence

Chapter 9: Object-Orientated Design

Chapter 10: Coding Objects to Our Design

Chapter 11: Business and Utility Objects

Appendix A: Working with Visual Modeler

Appendix B: Database Programming: A Quick Refresher

Appendix C: solutions

Index