Chapter 1. First Steps with Microsoft Visual Basic 6

This chapter introduces you to the Visual Basic environment and guides you through the creation of your first Visual Basic program. It also presents a number of important concepts that are crucial to Visual Basic programming, such as the event-driven programming model. If you aren't new to Visual Basic, you can probably skip over this chapter without any problem. Interspersed in the main text, however, you might find a few interesting tips for making the best use of the environment as well as a couple of introductions to features of Visual Basic that are new in version 6, so I suggest that you give this chapter a quick look, regardless of your Visual Basic experience.