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VBScript in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

VBScript in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs

Lightweight yet powerful, VBScript from Microsoft® is used in four main areas: server-side web applications using Active Server Pages (ASP), client-side web scripts using Internet Explorer, code behind Outlook forms, and automating repetitive tasks using Windows Script Host (WSH). VBScript in a Nutshell , Second Edition delivers current and complete documentation for programmers and system administrators who want... (more)

VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages

by Paul Lomax

The online documentation of VB/VBA language components follows the 80/20 rule: the basic facts that you need to use a language statement are provided in the documentation. But the additional 20 percent that you need to use it effectively is conspicuously absent. To a professional VB/VBA programmer, this missing documentation isn't a luxury; it is a necessity. In VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language ,... (more)

Mastering Visual Basic 6

by Evangelos Petroutsos

1300 pages! Here's complete authoritative coverage of Microsoft's new Internet-enabled Visual Basic, including VB 6's HTML tags and VBScript components. Like its best-selling previous edition, Mastering VB 6 is the perfect single-volume reference for beginning and intermediate programmers. New material includes detailed hand's-on exercises showing how to use VB 6 to integrate VB applications with Windows 98.... (more)

Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town

Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town

by Chris Bohjalian

Years ago, Chris Bohjalian and his wife traded their Brooklyn co-op for a century-old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975). Bohjalian, a bestselling novelist, began chronicling life in that gloriously quirky little village with a wide variety of magazine essays and his newspaper column, “Idyll Banter.” These pieces, written over the course of twelve years, are honest, funny, and deeply affecting... (more)

VBScript Pocket Reference

by Matt Childs

Whether you're developing code for Active Server Pages, client-side scripts for Internet Explorer, code for Outlook forms, or scripts for Windows Script Host, this book will be your constant companion. Based on the bestselling VBScript in a Nutshell , this small book details every VBScript language element--every statement, function, and object--both in VBScript itself and in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime... (more)

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood

by Thrity N. Umrigar

First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu... (more)

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Language Reference

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Language Reference

by Microsoft Corporation

This A to Z reference is the printed documentation for the next version of Microsoft Visual Basic. In its printed form, this information is portable, easy to use, and easy to browse-a comprehensive alternative to the substantial online help system in Visual Basic .NET Standard software. The language reference contains information about Visual Basic .NET constants, data types, directives, functions, keywords,... (more)

Somebody Else's Kids

by Torey L. Hayden

"Were all just somebody else's kids..." A small seven-year-old boy who couldn't speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people's words...A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn't learn to read...A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to... (more)

The Book of Visual Basic 2005: .NET Insight for Classic VB Developers

The Book of Visual Basic 2005: .NET Insight for Classic VB Developers

by Matthew MacDonald

The Book of Visual Basic 2005 is a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft's newest programming language, Visual Basic 2005, the next iteration of Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft has dropped the .NET in the title). A complete revision to the highly acclaimed Book of VB .NET , the book is organized as a series of lightning tours and real-world examples that show developers the VB 2005 way of doing things. Perfect... (more)

Ty Vb In Days Professional Ref Edition (Sams Teach Yourself...in 21 Days / Professional Editions)

Ty Vb In Days Professional Ref Edition (Sams Teach Yourself...in 21 Days / Professional Editions)

by Greg M. Perry

Visual Basic programming techniques are presented in a logical and easy-to-follow sequence that helps you really understand the principles involved in developing programs. The reader begins with learning the basics to write a first program and then moves on to adding voice, music, sound, and graphics. After reading this book, the reader will be able to write their own DLLs, create ActiveX controls, use object... (more)

Modeling Risk: Applying Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting, and Optimization Techniques (Wiley Finance)

Modeling Risk: Applying Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting, and Optimization Techniques (Wiley Finance)

by Johnathan Mun

This completely revised and updated edition of Applied Risk Analysis includes new case studies in modeling risk and uncertainty as well as a new risk analysis CD-ROM prepared by Dr. Mun. On the CD-ROM you'll find his Risk Simulator and Real Options Super Lattice Solver software as well as many useful spreadsheet models. "Johnathan Mun's book is a sparkling jewel in my finance library. Mun demonstrates a... (more)

Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management (Statistics in Practice)

Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management (Statistics in Practice)

by Ngai Hang Chan

This unique resource provides simulation techniques for financial risk managers ensuring you become well versed in many recent innovations, including Gibbs sampling, the use of heavy-tailed distributions in VaR calculations, construction of volatility smile, and state space modeling. The authors illustrate key concepts with examples and case studies you can reproduce using either S-PLUS? or Visual Basic? and... (more)

VBA For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

VBA For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

by Steve Cummings, John Mueller

* Gives programmers, software developers, and advanced users of Microsoft Office applications all the key concepts necessary to write VBA programs for the new Office "X" * Fully updated to cover all the changes in the newest release of Office * VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is the primary development tool for all applications in the Microsoft Office suite-Access, Excel, and Word-and according to... (more)

Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course

by Richard Mansfield

Is it possible to learn Visual Basic 6 in a weekend? It is with the Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course . Start with programming fundamentals on Friday evening and wrap it up with understanding classes and objects on Sunday afternoon. Come Monday morning, you'll know how to create Visual Basic programs. Packed with tips, screenshots, and code, the book's 30 step-by-step lessons will have you programming... (more)

Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers

Dan Appleman's Win32 API Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers

by Dan Appleman

The key to accessing the power of every operating system is its application programming interface (API). Visual Basic can access only part of the Windows API without special help. To write the most powerful possible programs, VB programmers need to work with all of the API. The big problem for VB programmers in trying to do so is that all of the available documentation on the Windows API is written for C++... (more)

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 Api

Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 Api

by Daniel Appleman

Quickly harness the full power of the Windows(R) 32-bit operating system using Visual Basic. This best-selling guide covers every key element of the core Win32 API--from Windows management and drawing operations to advanced process control and interprocess communication techniques. Dan Applemen shows you how to translate C and C++ based Win32 documentation to Visual Basic, how to port 16-bit applications to... (more)

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by David Sedaris

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor ) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously... (more)

VB.NET Language in a Nutshell

by Steven Roman

The extensive changes to Visual Basic and the newness of the .NET platform call for a VB .NET reference guide oriented toward professional developers--those deeply experienced in Visual Basic and those adding VB .NET to their list of mastered languages. VB .NET Language in a Nutshell answers the call. As a reference book, it doesn't waste space on simple concepts, but does document, using practical examples, how... (more)