Visual Basic how-toZane Thomas
Visual Basic how-to
by Zane Thomas · first published 1993
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…which I wrote to overcome some of the limitations of using the Windows API when using VB. That lead to Mitch Waite (publisher of many popular computer books in those days) contacting me to revise the Visual Basic How To. The result was the Visual Basic 3.0 How-To, which was almost all entirely new material. My approach to writing that book was to think about the things that one would want to program in Windows apps…
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