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The book that IS recommended for the Applications Development unit is:

An Introduction To Programming Using Visual Basic 6.0, Fourth Edition, by David I. Schneider

ISBN: 0-13-936428-5

This book's version (6) of the CCE (Control Creation Edition) software has the Data Control and the Flexi - Grid Control.

It is published by Prentice Hall - http://www.prenhall.com

The version of software currently in use on this unit is version 6.0

The above mentioned book, also has a cheaper version with less chapters:

Essentials of Visual Basic 6.0 Programming, By David I. Schneider, ISBN: 0-13-0-12720-5

The book has the same CD ROM as its more expensive counterpart.

Other Titles:

Programming In Visual Basic 6.0,

by Julia Case Bradley and Anita C. Millspaugh - ISBN : 0-07-116115-5

~ published by McGraw Hill - http://www.mhhe.com

Software is also provided with this book. The book had a lot of useful and relevant detail, which was good for beginner and experienced programmers alike.

The same authors have also produced an advanced book:

Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic 6.0, by Julia Case Bradley and Anita C. Millspaugh - ISBN : 0-07-118105-9

This book included a CD ROM with the examples from the book.

Learning To Program With Visual Basic - 2^nd Edition,

By Patrick G. McKeown and Craig A. Piercy - ISBN : 0-471-41862-5

~ published by Wiley - http://www.wiley.com

Software is also provided with this book.

Programming With Visual Basic 6, By Edward J. Coburn – ISBN: 0-534-36829-8 ~ published by PWS – http://www.pws.com

Using the advanced search facility on their web site and typing "Visual Basic" - matching all words and media, yielded 30 titles.

This book had no software (unlike the version 5.0 edition???), but could probably be obtained very cheaply or even free.

Database Programming.

For database programming with Visual Basic, some titles are:

Visual Database Programming, By Michael Kofler - ISBN: 0-201-72193-7 ~ published by Addison-Wesley - http://www.aw.com

Database Access With Visual Basic 6.0 - The Authoritive Solution, By Jeffrey P. McManus ISBN: 0-672-31422-3 ~ published by SAMS - http://www.samspublishing.com

Both of the above two books contain code samples on a CD ROM.

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