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VB & VBA In A Nutshell
by By Paul Lomax - Reviewed by Ted Shapin, NOCCC - July 30, 1999 at 14:00:53:
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the language used to program in Visual Basic (VB). VB is a development environment and VBA is the language used to program all of the Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Access, and Excel.This book is aimed at professional software developers. It is a reference work and not a tutorial for beginning programmers. If you are new to VB, then it assumes you can program in at least one other language. It is based upon VB6.
Part 1 gives information on what VBA language is and how it fits into the family of VB products. It gives the main features and concepts of Visual Basic programming.
Part 2 is a 465-page reference chapter that gives details of all the functions, statements and object models that make up the VBA language. It also includes the elements found in earlier versions, VB4 and VB5.
Part 3 is appendices that list all functions, statements and keywords by category, a detailed list of operators, and a summary of what’s new in the V6 version.
This book keeps to the usual high standards of the publisher, O’Reilly, and is recommend for experienced programmers. The list price is $20 and it is available at computer bookstores. The publisher’s web page is at www.oreilly.com.
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