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Posted by Boca   (15 posts)  Bio
Date Tue 24 Jul 2001 12:00 PM (UTC)
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Can you suggest a good VB book for me? I am looking for something along the lines of VB for Dummies - lol! When I did a search in Amazon.com - there were over 600 matches. Lots were were for VB 6, but I assume the VB we use for MushClient is VB for applications?
Thanks,
Boca
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Tue 24 Jul 2001 10:29 PM (UTC)
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Actually there are three flavours of Visual Basic:


  • Visual Basic standalone (the whole enchilada)
  • VB for Applications (VBA) which is used in programs like Word and Excel
  • VBscript - the scripting engine supplied for use in third-party applications, and also in client-side scripting


I am using VBscript. The problem with books on VBscript is that they tend to concentrate on the client-side scripting aspect (ie. HTML pages) and not scripting in other environments.

Looking on Amazon, this book looks quite good, and it is by O'Reilly who usually do a good job:

Vbscript in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
by Petrusha, Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, Ron Petrusha

Amazon Price: $20.96

Paperback - 495 pages (May 2000)
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565927206


- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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