Outline

How To Program Visual Basic Control Creation Edition

• What's New in Visual Basic 5.0
  • What’s new in the integrated development environment
  • New language features
• Control Basics
  • What is an ActiveX control?
  • Your control’s interface
• Your First Control
  
  • Setting up the IDE
  • Managing the Project
  • Control Designers
  • Testing the Control
• Control Properties
  • Creating Property Procedures
  • Creating Custom Property Pages
• Control Events
  • Creating Custom Events
  • Events of the UserControl Object
• Control Methods
  • Creating Methods
  • Implementing Standard Methods
  • Utilizing Methods Supplied by the Extender object
• Interacting with the Container
  • What Is A Container?
  • Using the Extender Object
• Constituent Controls
  • Inherent Controls
  • Third-Party Controls
  • Locating Commercial Controls
• User-Drawn Controls
  • Graphics Methods
  • The Paint Event
  • The Refresh Method
  • Displaying Your Control as Disabled
  • Displaying the Default Property
  • Showing Your Control Has the Focus
• Window Dressing
  • Giving Your Control a Transparent Background
  • Design time, run time, read-only properties
  • Permitting Your Control To Act as a Container
  • Implementing Access Keys
  • Controls that are invisible at runtime
  • Controls That Align to the Edges of Forms
  • Adding an About Box
  • Project templates
  • Adding a Toolbox Bitmap
  • Giving your control an Enabled property
  • Resource Files
• Windows API and DLL Calls
  • Declaring DLL Calls
  • Example: Control that plays a sound
  • Using Resources
  • Example: Control that alters the menu
• Distributing Your Controls
  • Compiling Your Control
  • Binary Compatibility
  • Project Properties
  • Testing Your Compiled Control In Microsoft Access
  • Using the Setup Wizard
  • Licensing
  • Localization
  • Registering and Unregistering Controls
• Using Your Control On The Web
  • Crash Course on HTML and VBScript
  • Using the ActiveX Control Pad
  • Testing your control in a web browser
  • Making It Work with Netscape
  • Using the Setup Wizard in an Internet context
  • CAB Files and CODEBASE Tags
  • Safety considerations
  • Licensing Issues on the Web
  • Signing Your Code
  • Using Signcode to Sign your CAB File
• Controls That Interact With the Internet
  • Asynchronous Download of Property Values
  • Internet Controls as Constituent Controls
  • Building an Email Control
  • Using Internet Explorer as a Constituent Control
  • Using the InternetExplorer Automation Object
• Debugging and Error-Handling
  • The Immediate Window
  • Breakpoints
  • Using Option Explicit
  • The Locals Window
  • Monitoring Expressions Using Watches
  • Using Assertions
  • Writing Error-Handlers
  • The Err Object
  • Raising Errors
• Object-Oriented Programming
  • Object-Oriented Concepts
  • Classes
  • Collections
  • Creating a Collection Class
  • Incorporating a Class in a Control
  • Building Interfaces Using the Implements Keyword
  • Using Friend Methods
• Database Access
  • Visual Basic Data Access
  • Using a Microsoft Access Database
  • Other Data Sources Accessible to the Data Control
  • More Choices: Using Open Database Connectivity
  • Data-Aware Controls In Visual Basic
  • How Database Access Works
  • Properties of Data-Aware Controls
  • Providing Data Awareness in Your ActiveX Control