For undergraduate/graduate and MBA level Visual Basic courses. This comprehensive text employs the uses of core VB controls to teach programming from the perspective of data entry and processing. It balances this approach to learning with coverage of VB features and fundamentals, providing students with a practical orientation and many interesting programming challenges with direct applicability to future jobs. *Focus on programming problems - Covers code performance and minimization considerations. For example, Chapter 9 gives examples using different algorithms and shows the differences in speed. Chapter 10 illustrates several code structures that not only minimizes the code but also enhance its maintainability. *Provides students with an emphasis on enhancing data entry efficiency, and considerations associated with data management - rather than the features of VB objects. *Online help file provides pointers to additional information. *Familiarizes students with readily available resources to expand their knowledge of material covered in the text. Beginning with Chapter 2, Look It Up special boxes point to additional useful information in the online MSDN library. *Numerous pro